Writer's Block: Santa Claus is coming to town

[jim_p]

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I was about 7 when I started noticing inconsistencies and impossibilities in the Santa story. Now that I look back on it the amount of retconning that my parents did to plug the holes was amusing (e.g. "What if the house has no chimney?" "He has a magic key to get in the front door")

The final nail in the coffin, of course, was when my parents dragooned me into wrapping the presents for my siblings, and they likewise :)

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[bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com]

My parents had to make stuff up about the chimney too. (Our Santa came in through the keyhole.)


My sister, who believed until she was 11 or 12, because she Really Wanted To, noticed, at age 6, that the paper used to wrap the stocking presents and that used to wrap the from Mom and Dad gifts were the same. D'oh! Can't remember what my parents said to fob her off, but the next year mom had saved paper fromt he year previous and used that to wrap the stocking stuff.

THe machinations that parents go through....