It's Santa and his twin brother, Harley. They trade off territories each year just in case some little boy or girl catches them in the act of delivering presents and eating milk and cookies. They tried it with one taking the NICE list and the other one the NAUGHTY list, but the NAUGHTY list was far too long.
They have gone high tech with GPS controlled flight patterns calculated to follow the shortest possible path. Each has a GOPRO camera strapped to their forehead to catch all the action. Some of the things they see when they enter homes in the middle of the night is downright unbelievable.
Well, Santa and Harley made their rounds last night. Finished up over the Pacific not long ago.
The big question is: Who decided rice cakes and carrot juice should replace chocolate chip cookies and whole milk?!
This Santa hit a dozen or so places yesterday bringing treats and laughter to many. Shortly before noon he was seen standing in line with a few hundred other people getting a free lunch courtesy of a bank in a small county seat town. Later he shocked four generations of a family directly tied to said bank at the home of the great-grandparents. It's quite a feeling to get a heartfelt hug around your knee from a tyke that can't reach any higher. Never did get any offers of free hay for the reindeer from any of the farmers but one gal offered to give them a giant to-go box full of biscuits and gravy. Had to institute a policy this year that no little girls got to sit on Santa's lap unless under six or over 18 with two proof-of-age documents. No more problems like last year.:whistle: Another four-generation stop included Mrs. Claus' former boss. He was amused to learn that the NAUGHTY list produced from Santa's sack included multiple listings of the same name......his recently departed boss. That's departed as in "Go away and don't come back!" The final stop included a little fellow named Brayden who promised Santa that when he grew up he would not be as big a troublemaker as his daddy. Daddy's comeback was, "He had better not be!"
It didn't take as much white hair spray this year to top off the Santa-look. The beard was all natural, however. Had a few tugs on it to see if it was real.
You are a good man Charlie Brown.