With Rack the Laser Dog staring his glowy eyes at you, may you have a wonderful end of the year, and a better 2014!
If Santa Clothes came by and left you a Yellow Polyester Leisure Suit with Lime Green Frogs, and a Lump of Coal, you are probably my nephew remembering his childhood.
You see one year, when my little nephew was a toddler, he learned about the Holiday ATM that is known as Santa Claus. For months, Jon was telling us how he was going to get action figures, a new bike, and all the other things that a kid would want.
Then Thanksgiving hit. We told him that Santa Clothes would come for a visit and bring him clothes for Xmas.
Predictably that didn't go over too well, but it did start a new family tradition.
Every year from that point onward, I made it a quest to find my nephew a lump of coal. Even when he was a teenager, he knew that he would get a lump of coal in his stocking and some piece of clothing that he actually wanted from me, along with everything else I could find that he wanted for the holiday.
The lump of coal was a hard candy. It tasted like licorice and he did enjoy it because he was in on the joke.
So maybe Santa Clothes will bring you a sock and a lump of coal. You might just like it.
Especially if it was licorice flavored and came in a small bucket with a teeny weeny little hammer.
Mmm Licorice Flavored Coal! Yum!
Mind you, one year I actually did find a real lump of coal and gave him one of his own along with the licorice lump and an article of clothing. I think it was gloves that year. He also got a haul of goodies that he really wanted but the gloves he used all that season - or so I was told. Philadelphia and the suburbs get quite cold in winter.
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