Herman by Jim Unger for December 24, 2024

My granddaughter went to see Santa yesterday. She is 7 but was scared to even stand next to him. No way she was getting on his lap.

My youngest is 8 and Santa came to school. She didn’t look to thrilled in the picture we got.

A guy who hides his face with hair, and has brainwashed adults to put their children in his lap… yea, that’s the guy I trust.

Ten or so years ago around Christmas I was in a restaurant and I was wearing a red-plaid shirt. I had a gray beard. A kid pops up from the booth next to us and exclaimed, “Dad! Is that Santa!” For a moment I thought I might give him a stern look and use my napkin as a list and start writing but his Dad said it just someone who looks like Santa and told him to sit down.

Everyone loves those pictures of the little kid screaming on Santa’s lap, but that seems kinda cruel to me.

Well, “Santa” rearranged a bit is Satan!!!!! …gasp……..

Merry Christmas!

Once told a friend I did not take our kids to see store Santas. She got all upset about how I was denying my kids the fun, etc, yada yada yada. I suggested to her that seeing Santa impersonators would set them up for the same big emotional fall I had experienced when I learned there was no such person. I was very unhappy for days. Dad then explained to me that it was just a way to personify the spirit of Christmas and the joy of being together on a special day. I eventually got it.

Decades later, as a teacher I saw that fall hit some children who were ‘enlightened’ by their ‘friends’, who laughed at them. I told them the same thing Dad told me. Some understood, others were just too sad to accept it then. Maybe they understood it later on.

However one sees it, to each his/her own.

I send Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year to all.

its not a Santa thing, the kid is a Crip

A friend of mine grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in the 1950’s and 60’s. He told me that he never believed in Santa. There was no way a white man was coming into that neighborhood at night.

Funny….

It’s OK. We’ll get it all on video. You’ll be crying all over the Web by morning.

He’s not coming into the bedroom.

Shouldn’t we alert the cops?

Articulate little tyke.