Santa

[leechlake]

The statute of limitations is over on this so I will share a little Santa story.  I may keep the characters confidential but unlike Fargo this story is 100% true.

Some "guys" I know in my neighborhood used to dress up for Christmas and one was Santa and one was an elf and they would ride around on atv's and deliver Christmas gifts to the kids, seemed like we used to have a lot of little kids around here and while us parents haven't aged the kids have.  One year the two geniuses decided that since they were both elf sized human beings that for the next year we (I mean they) decided a XXL Santa was needed so they recruited a really fun guy that liked having a few.

The next year the ATV's were loaded with care and Santa and his two elves met for a safety meeting before dressing up and heading out.  On this particular Christmas there was a lot of snow and since one elf only had one leg (serious) the ATV's were driven through the neighbors yards with no damage done.  There is about twenty houses but for some reason not many people were home and after about six houses had only given one gift out.  Santa and his elves rang the door of some friends that don't have young kids anymore and were invited in to "warm up".   It was time to leave when one elf spilled his drink...time flies.

The second house from the warm up was one of the elves houses.  His wife came to the door and suggested that the gig may want to wrap up but Santa and his elves forged on with little success, nobody was home.  They got to the Flanigan's house and hit paydirt.  Two little boys were home and Santa and his elves were so excited they went in for photos and ended up at the basement bar.  Suddenly it was 9pm.  Santa and one elf mentioned it was time to go and it was now too late to wring door bells.  One elf who had a trailer on the back of his ATV was not having it.

He took off and was going to "just one more house" to prove the point.  He came into the yard a little HOT and slightly lost control of the "sleigh and reindeer" heading straight for the front door.  The elf was now laying in the bushes, ATV 5 feet from front door, trailer jack knifed in the shrubs and all landscape lights and Christmas lights had been whiped out in a blurr of ATV and snow.  Santa and the other elf came to help.  The ATV wouldn't start no matter what they did.  The best decision was to sneak away and leave the unit parked there.

In the morning the elf woke and his first thought, I heard, was "kill switch".  He went and knocked on the neighbor's door and extricated the ATV and trailer with much humility and embarrassment.  Neighbor would not allow compensation for fixing damage since elves and Santa meant well.  Mrs Claus and the elves wives were not as lenient with the offenders and that was the end of Santa in our neighborhood.  Merry Christmas to all!!!

 

[ThunderLund78]

Better than the occasional story of the guy who REALLY wants to be a convincing Santa and ends-up having to be extracted from his own chimney!

While obviously no one condones drinking and ATV driving, it's a great "live to tell about it" story of living in a fun, tightly-knit neighborhood.

[smurfy]

The statute of limitations is over on this so I will share a little Santa story.  I may keep the characters confidential but unlike Fargo this story is 100% true.

Some "guys" I know in my neighborhood used to dress up for Christmas and one was Santa and one was an elf and they would ride around on atv's and deliver Christmas gifts to the kids, seemed like we used to have a lot of little kids around here and while us parents haven't aged the kids have.  One year the two geniuses decided that since they were both elf sized human beings that for the next year we (I mean they) decided a XXL Santa was needed so they recruited a really fun guy that liked having a few.

The next year the ATV's were loaded with care and Santa and his two elves met for a safety meeting before dressing up and heading out.  On this particular Christmas there was a lot of snow and since one elf only had one leg (serious) the ATV's were driven through the neighbors yards with no damage done.  There is about twenty houses but for some reason not many people were home and after about six houses had only given one gift out.  Santa and his elves rang the door of some friends that don't have young kids anymore and were invited in to "warm up".   It was time to leave when one elf spilled his drink...time flies.

The second house from the warm up was one of the elves houses.  His wife came to the door and suggested that the gig may want to wrap up but Santa and his elves forged on with little success, nobody was home.  They got to the Flanigan's house and hit paydirt.  Two little boys were home and Santa and his elves were so excited they went in for photos and ended up at the basement bar.  Suddenly it was 9pm.  Santa and one elf mentioned it was time to go and it was now too late to wring door bells.  One elf who had a trailer on the back of his ATV was not having it.

He took off and was going to "just one more house" to prove the point.  He came into the yard a little HOT and slightly lost control of the "sleigh and reindeer" heading straight for the front door.  The elf was now laying in the bushes, ATV 5 feet from front door, trailer jack knifed in the shrubs and all landscape lights and Christmas lights had been whiped out in a blurr of ATV and snow.  Santa and the other elf came to help.  The ATV wouldn't start no matter what they did.  The best decision was to sneak away and leave the unit parked there.

In the morning the elf woke and his first thought, I heard, was "kill switch".  He went and knocked on the neighbor's door and extricated the ATV and trailer with much humility and embarrassment.  Neighbor would not allow compensation for fixing damage since elves and Santa meant well.  Mrs Claus and the elves wives were not as lenient with the offenders and that was the end of Santa in our neighborhood.  Merry Christmas to all!!!

 

so do you till have the ATV???????????

[RebelSS]

He's workin' on it....

 

 

[leechlake]

I am working on it, it won't start and it isn't the kill switch.

[reinhard1]

Great Story!!!!  I didn't have a ATV but I did have a big red wagon that I  used to walk the streets with.  I normally put a case of good beer in it in case one of the neighbors would want one or stroll along.  My kids walked along doing their trick or treat thing [this was Halloween].  Sorry this story reminded me of it.  As we progressed around the neighborhood other neighbors would join with me bringing their adult beverages along in my wagon and their kids would collect their candy as we "supervised".  Near the end of the Candy Collection tour, we would have at least 20 guys walking with me.  This became a tradition in our neighborhood for a few years.  Only once did we get the cops called on us.  It was from a nerdy neighbor lady who complained about us "singing loudly" on her street corner.  good luck.

[delcecchi]

Trink Trink Bruderlein Trink, is all I remember from high school german. 

[leechlake]

my neighbor buddys and I lost the kids a few times on those halloween wagon rides.   It wasn't from too many it was just dark and too many kids running around.  We always brought the right number of kids home but sometimes the wrong ones.  It's hard to tell with costumes on anyway.