"There's No Santa?"

[KNI]

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[theprinceofsnj]

My brother did it for me. He was 3 years 2 months 2 days older than me. And very jealous of me. But he had the misfortune of being born on Christmas Eve. No, we don't talk. Fact is I have outlived him. By 5 years.

 

[Doc]

 

[KJRR]

1st grade teacher ruined it for my daughter. Teacher was reading stories and trying to explain what a fable was, said it was like the story of the Easter Bunny, a made up story. The teacher was fresh out of school, 1st year teacher and obviously didn’t have kids. Well that little revelation led to questioning the Tooth Fairy and Santa and led to some explaining by us. She did manage to not spoil it for her sister for a few years... That teacher was still my daughters favorite.

 

[Fordup]

 

[AzScorpion]

Still one of the best Christmas movies and we always watch it every year.

 

[Cmar]

Wow, good thing that most of us are of an age on this forum, next thing you'll be telling me that faeries, elves and leprechauns don't exist either.
When in Iceland earlier this year I discovered that a fair proportion of the adult population do believe in fairy folk, and some even put out little houses in their yards for them to live in! They also believe in invisible family members.

 

[Tracy Bowman]

I STILL BELIEVE!!!!

I saw santa as a kid.

We lived in ft Collins, co. We had a 3 story home. I slept in the basement, it was half in half out of the ground. Stairs went down straight to a bathroom room to the left and right. Well, i must have been 7,8,9? something like that. Well the tree was up the stairs of the basement. Main floor had garage living room kitchen top floor had bedrooms bathroom and family room.
So anyway. I heard a door open and close and a bag rustling. Sounded like plastic. Then i heard the ornaments on the tree moving. So i crawled up the stairs.
THERE HE WAS!! BIG RED COAT AND TAKING GIFTS OUT OF THE BAG!

It was dark, but i could see the collar and the cuffs silhouette. My heart pounded and i wanted to say hi. I did not though. I was scared if i did that he would run away. So i waited for him to finish. When he was done, he left out the garage door??
So i ran back to bed and layed down. After some noises i heard the garage door again and lay in bed. So after a while it got quiet and i ran upstairs to see what he left. He left the gifts ran downstairs and went to bed.
In the morning i was excited, told my parents and my sister i saw santa!!! My parents just stared at each other with an okay.... look on there faces. I said i saw the bag coat everything. Best christmas ever!!

Well, our garage was unfinished. You could see the frame of it. My father would keep stuff on top of some plywood in the attic of the unfinished garage. He was also a cement truck driver. And he had a big red wool coat, with a big collar and cuffs. I am sure if my father ever needed to grab something in the middle of the night from the garage he would grab his big warm wool red coat.

But for that year and the many that followed, i saw santa and nothing could persuade me otherwise. So if you ever see santa, just let him be, let him do his thing.
Or the magic will go away.

Sure glad i did not spook him. Story could have ended different.

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Great story!?

 

[Tracy Bowman]

I caught my parents sneaking presents from the neighbor’s across the road. Still pretended for a couple of years so as to not spoil it for my parents.?

 

[Tracy Bowman]

I always felt bad about lying to my son about Santa & said if he ever came straight out and asked me I would tell him the truth.

One day while sitting in the car waiting on husband to come out of the store, it happened.

The question came from the back seat. I decided the time had come and told him the truth. His reaction shocked me. He did NOT take it well. Said he supposed the Easter Bunny & tooth fairy weren’t real either. I confirmed it.

That was one mad young man! He said grownups should be ashamed of themselves to lie to their children like that. He was about 7. I’ve always felt so bad about that. Thankfully, he still loves me.? (he also does the Santa thing by the way?)

 

[Cmar]

Ours said they always knew, my wife was devastated! The chimney thing was always a bit hard to explain, most houses where we live don't have chimneys. The good thing is though those that do however, because Christmas is in summer here at least there wouldn't be a fire in it at Christmas!
Something I could never quite reconcile with the Northern Hemisphere Christmas tale.

 

[bobobama]

I knew something wasn't right when I saw a price tag on the bottom of one of my toys.

I question everything since then, a trait which comes in handy (especially with internet forums)!

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