TheBanyanTree: Who The Hell is My Secret Santa? (paul)

[paul]

A theme this year seems to be "evil parents should go to hell for 
lying to their children about Santa".  I don't know why.  Perhaps they 
are still having a tantrum that they didn't get the Super Easy Bake 
Oven or the bicycle was "just" a one speed and not a five speed.  I 
know we would make a list from the Sears Christmas catalog and get 
/nothing/ from our list.

Yes, we had Santa when I was little.  It was a lot of fun.  All the 
to-do about decorating the tree and wrapping presents you bought with 
your saved allowance money.

One year we made tree ornaments with the walnut shells left from Mom 
making fruitcake.  She spray painted the shells gold and then we 
looped dark green thread around a pine cone petal and glued the halves 
together.  The next year we did it again with sycamore balls and 
silver paint.

I figured it out when I was nine, I think.  What with Mom leaving us 
with a babysitter to go shopping and then hiding things around the 
house.  Like we didn't know how to drag a chair from the dining room 
to their bedroom closet to reach the shelf?  Yet, there were always 
real nice surprises under the tree.  Come to think of it, she probably 
stashed stuff in the attic or just kept it in the car's trunk. ...

I was given the "do not say a word to the younger kids speech".  A 
sister got the speech the net year.  It was, actually, a lot of fun 
watching them being so excited for a few more years.  And I got to 
stay up late and help wrap presents for my brother and sisters.  Kind 
of like a grown-up.  :)

Santa is for kids.  So is the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.  I 
never felt lied to, I felt like "hey, I figured it out, I must be 
growing up!"  And hey, look!  I have a Lady Head Dime under my pillow!

I miss the fun.  I miss Mom's fruitcake.

I have a pill bottle of Lady Head Dimes that I'll never ever spend.

paul



trsmith44 via TheBanyanTree said the following on 12/24/2021 9:13 AM:
> I like puzzles. That's good, because reality is full of them.
> I personally would welcome a secret Santa, both for the
> prospect of benevolent gifts and for the opportunity to try
> to unveil a mystery.
> 
> I got over being lied to about Santa. That was easy when
> there was a new bicycle or roller skates under a Christmas
> tree. Maybe it is foolish for old folks to gift their children
> in old Santa's name. I forgive them.
> 
> Tom
> 


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