REBstill Wrote:KlutzDio, did Santa never come to see you when you were a little kid? Are you always so negative? It is so depressing! Never mind, I already know the answer.
Actually Still, Santa was one of the great disappointments in my life.
I used to love X-mas morning. My brother would always come wake me up about 5 a.m. and say, "Santa Clause came!" At that moment I was up, wiping sand from my eyes, and running down the hall toward the living room where we kept the x-mas tree. My brother and I would have eyes wider than the Mississippi gazing at all the gifts. Then we tear into the wrapped stuff hollering ninety to nothing "look what I got..."
The Christmas before my sixth birthday (I was born shortly after x-mas day, in Dec.) I was thinking long and hard about Santa. I just couldn't wrap my mind around the notion of one person delivering gifts to every little child in the world in one night. It just seemed so fanciful, that it was unbelievable!
In addition, the saying went that if you were bad, then Santa didn't give you anything. He kept a list of who's naughty and nice. Well, my parents always said I was a holy terror, the worst kid living and they were disappointed they didn't abort their little "accident." Nonetheless, regardless of how bad I was, I always woke up to the mother-lode every x-mas morning.
Basically Still, I logically put it all together and realized it was a lie, a conspiracy by parents to get their kids to behave. After all, we all need a quid pro quo to do the right thing, to be good. That is when I realized I had been deceived and I was terribly disappointed.
After that, my parents said that Santa was obsolete and consequently my brother and I quit waking up to x-mas morning gifts. In fact, after I told my parents that I realized there was no Santa, the only thing I got from my parents was a carton of Marlboros, "merry christmas...now smoke up Johnny!" he'd say.
I didn't get another disappointment like that until I realized all the Jesus stuff is another lie, another conspiracy to get adults to behave. But, it doesn't really work very well, the Jesus conspiracy that is.
To answer your question, you are correct sir (in the words of Ed McMahon). I am as negative as I am because of the whole Santa thing.
