A
Santa Story
Submitted
by HOST
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My
3 year old daughter Jessica (who
is now 22) and her sister age 2
(who is now 21) went to see
grandma and grandpa in New Jersey
for christmas. my sister was
there, and her poor sickly dog
"Kojak" was there too. Before we
arrived from our long trip, my
parents decided to surprise my
babies by having my father dress
up as santa and bringing gifts.
They managed to get a nice
costume from a friend at the
chamber of commerce and dad got
dressed. He bagged up the gifts,
and proceeded down the back
staircase to the driveway, from
the rear of the house to the
front of the house, up the porch
steps to the front door, and rang
the bell. (We didn't have a
chimney). Well the doorbell made
"Kojak" go nuts, and the girls
jumped when everyone said "gee, I
wonder if that could be santa?"
So jessica, age 3 determined to
get hers first said that she
would go down the winding front
staircase to the front door and
let santa in. Kojak went with
her. My sister and i went behind
her to see her reaction at the
door when she would open it to
see santa with a big bag of
goodies. Jessica managed to open
the huge door and Kojak sat down
like he was going to get a treat.
My daughter looked straight at
santa and said 'oh hi grandpa,
come on upstairs'. My sister and
I howled in laughter. Dad had
forgotten his white santa gloves
and to my daughter only grandpa
had hairy knuckles and she knew
immediately that it was grandpa.
That has been a howling story
told every year since. Jessica
still finds it funny - grandpa
too.
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