The oldest noticed that one of her past Santa gifts was marked "Made in China" (it was a tag on a stuffed animal, not some metal painted thing!). She asked, "Is the north pole in China?" I answered that no it wasn't. So she asked why her stuffed horse from Santa said it was. I said, "Because of the economy, Santa can't afford to employ all of those toy-making elves. It's really the Elf Union's fault. They kept demanding more and more benefits that Santa just couldn't afford. Eventually they went on strike and Santa had to order all the toys for girls and boys online. He found this to be a great time-saver -- the toys are already packaged, kids want exact toys, not hand-made things anymore. So when the Elf Union continued to make impossible demands, Santa restructured his system. He hired non-union elves to care for the reindeer, receive and sort the toys, help him keep track of the naughty-nice list, but really it's a skeleton operation now.
Thank goodness she had wandered off and started doing something else because I had run out of things to say!
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