Here are some interesting things about Santa I remember from this most wonderful time of the year:
Santa made the front page of my favorite newspaper, the Chicago Sun Times. He was getting his boots shined and reading the sports section.
Anna's brother teaches english to children in a small town in Japan. When he asked them "Who's birthday is on Christmas?" they all said "Santa!" in unison.
My parents have cable, and we were watching one of those crazy news stations that try to cram as much information as will fit on the screen, complete with updates scrolling along the bottom. There was a shiny, red pulsating icon that said "Terror Alert: HIGH" hovering over the FOX NEWS logo, and behind it they were tracking Santa, probably via GPS or something, as he made his way through the winter night sky on a sleigh drawn by eight CG reindeer.
My grampa gave me a ride to the train station on Christmas, and while we were waiting in the car for the train to arrive there was an old man with a gray beard and a sports jacket also waiting on the platform. My grampa said something like "Who's that, Santa?", and even though he said it quietly and we had the windows rolled all the way up, the man turned around right then and gave us the googley-eyes and then a big smile before turning his back to us again.
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