Today Was Checking Out How The Parents Are Doing Day A Getting The Presents
Hi Edward The Elf back with Santa's thoughts.
If you were out shopping today you might have noticed a few short people and one jolly fat chap darting here there and everywhere poking their noses into people's shopping bags.
I'll give you one guess as to why...
Yes, you're right it was Santa and us elves checking that parents are buying what they said they would.
For some strange reason Santa discovered that quite a few parents like to buy the presents themselves. But they still like Santa to deliver them. So we have to scout round and check that they're getting what they said and not bulkier items.
That's so that we can be sure of the weight the sledges need to carry. Then we can feed the reindeer just the right amount of sparkling flying dust. Too much and apart from costing us an arm and a leg it means they just keep zooming up into space - most disconcerting.
Mind you too little and we have to send our maintenance dwarves out afterwards to repair all the roof tiles we've hit and smashed during landing and take-off.
So that's why we do a scout around now a days. And touch wood we've not had to send the dwarves out for ...
Hmm... let me think.
About 4 or 5 centuries.
And we don't want to wake them on Christmas Eve otherwise they get all crochety and won't join in the singing with us on Christmas Day. They just stomp around muttering about "darned fool elves" and looking at us through acres of eyebrows and beards.
Anyway one of the things Santa particularly noted was gadget-type toys had almost completely sold out as had the Hermione dress from the latest Harry Potter film. We had a bit of a conference after the scouting and found that all the ones we'd sourced, as grey imports, were allocated so we were unable to help.
Santa said, "This is what comes of us letting parents buy stuff! If we'd known earlier we could have got those big factories in China working much faster."
posted by Jim Symcox at 10:53 PM
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