It looks as though the 'signs that the end of world is near' theme remains appropriate for our weekly QOTW recap.
I have to say that I'm quite concerned that we may be seeing a new trend as last year's results from this same question were a bit more, let's say . . . passive!
Out of 14 votes to this same question a year ago, I was the only one who had no issue with filling a Santa intruder full of chocolate chip cookies, milk and several rounds of buckshot. Meanwhile there were 7 of you who would have used up 2 GB on your digital cameras with photo evidence that the fat man in red actually exists!
But apparently something's different this year because Santa doesn't stand a chance if shows up without his SWAT team gear!
What gives? Did Santa get a little too handsy during last year's photo-op or something? Sheesh!
Regardless of what has drawn your disdain for Father Christmas, I feel that it's my responsibility however to give you fair warning that, according to Weird Al Yankovic's The Night Santa Went Crazy, Jolly Old St. Nick can be pushed only so far! In other words, what goes around comes around!
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"You're woken early Christmas morning by a man wearing a red suit placing presents under your tree."
Total votes: 11
You assume you're dreaming and go back to bed: 0% (0 votes)
You hide your family in a closet and call the police: 27% (3 votes)
You gather the kids around for a photo-op: 9% (1 vote)
You get trigger happy with your 12 gauge shotgun!: 63% (7 votes)
6 comments:
Just stopped by to wish you all a wonderful christmas!
Cas and Cx
Hey Wade,
Remember, here in Maple Ridge I had a guy gazing into our condo at 5:30 in the morning, looking for Mommy.
While living in Manchester, one of the flat renters nearby had two men break in, tie him to a chair and beat him to death. They left his flat door open as a message, perhaps.
Let us hope that if people are putting presents under a tree, it is one's relatives with a surprise 'break in'.
Merry Christmas;)
I wouldn't stop to look and see if he was fat, jolly and in a red suit....my 9mm would get to play - of course, the mythical Santa wouldn't get caught!! :-)
Hope you guys have a very merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all of you from the Phillips family.
By the way for about 15 years I would put on a red suit and play Santa for the entire community.
But then I got in touch with my emotions and became a grumpy old man. I am much more comfortable in the "grumpy old man suit."
Just being realistic. Really, if Santa existed, he woudhave all sorts of powers and magic and he consorts with little pointy eared dudes. The religious repercussions would be... problematic. So if it can't really be Santa, it's some guy boosting my osterizer. Blam!
Merry Christmas anyway to you and your family. And... Tag! Heh.
Hey Cas,
And a very Merry Christmas to you!
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Hey Russ,
Oh, yeah! I forgot about that! Man, that story creeps me out!
Merry Christmas to you, too!
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Jenni has a 9 mm!?!?!?
Wow! Excuse me while I scratch out "Get cross-ways with Jenni during the Class of '98 Reunion party" from my To-Do List!!!
You are so one of the coolest people I know!
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Hey Bob,
I can totally see you as a great Santa Claus. But you need to bust out a beard!!!
We should start a Grumpy Old Man Support Group - not to work out our grumpiness but to discover new ways to impose our grumpiness on others!!!
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Hey Lawn,
You bring up a great point. Santa probably does have Jedi powers of some kind and I'm sure his elves all suffer from little man syndrome do therefore they've got an attitude that won't take much pushing around.
The issue here is whether or not to utilize the 'shoot first, ask questions later' policy - assuming Capt. Kringle will even let you get off the first shot in first place. And Jenni's right, mystical Santa probably wouldn't get caught.
Either way, I think you should go ahead and take the shot if you can. If it's the real Santa then he'll pull some Matrix move on you. It'll probably hurt but it'll still be pretty cool - although the teenagers will probably give you heck for getting whipped by Santa.
But if you end up shooting at some jerk who's looting your tree then you probably just saved yourself a trip back to the store for another osterizer.
Whew! I'm glad we got that figured out!
Thanks all for stopping by . . . and have a Merry Christmas!
W
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