Why I Believe in Santa
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captain_slinkyNo idea why, maybe it was a combination of scents and sounds swirling in my mind, but for some reason i just flash-backed to Christmas Morning 1982. I was 9 years old. I remember *specifically* the three "Big Presents" Santa brought me that year.
A "Ghetto Blaster" Boom-Box with AM/FM Radio *and* a cassette tape player! TWO GIANT SPEAKERS!!! It required six "D"-size batteries to run.
A Hamilton Beach Milkshake Mixer. This was by far the most WTF gift that a nine-year-old me would ever receive Ends up it was for mixing all the "Diet Shakes" they would make me start drinking in the new year because I was a "Husky" child. What the makers of those ever-so-delicious diet shake mixes didn't realize is that the caloric count goes WAY UP when you just use it as flavoring along with two scoops of ice cream and half a can of Chocolate Syrup.
And last but not least, THIS:
That's the GIANT POSTER of Michael Jackson and E.T. that came in the Collector's Boxed Set of "Michael Jackson Reads and Sings the story of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial". On Cassette tape, so i could listen to it on my new "Ghetto Blaster". This was by far the most intuitive Christmas Gift I ever recieved. I loved Michel Jackson. I loved E.T. Even though I had never heard of this item, somehow this marriage of my two great loves made its way down my chimney in to my arms!
I must admit that I had my doubts about Santa up till then. If you still believe in Santa by the time you're 8, most of your classmates will be MORE than happy to help you overcome that little problem. And I must admit that Aaron Fowler had been pushing his whole "No Such Thing As Santa Clause" agenda on me prety heavily for years by then... but here was UNDENIABLE PROOF that Santa Exists! My parents would NEVER have been intuitive enough to buy such an item for me! They bought me stuff like SOCKS and PANTS! They bought things that were very specifically on my list and/or circled in the back of the Sears Wishbook! They bought me things like... like MILKSHAKE MAKERS!!!
But Santa knew better. Santa knows me :)
A "Ghetto Blaster" Boom-Box with AM/FM Radio *and* a cassette tape player! TWO GIANT SPEAKERS!!! It required six "D"-size batteries to run.
A Hamilton Beach Milkshake Mixer. This was by far the most WTF gift that a nine-year-old me would ever receive Ends up it was for mixing all the "Diet Shakes" they would make me start drinking in the new year because I was a "Husky" child. What the makers of those ever-so-delicious diet shake mixes didn't realize is that the caloric count goes WAY UP when you just use it as flavoring along with two scoops of ice cream and half a can of Chocolate Syrup.
And last but not least, THIS:
That's the GIANT POSTER of Michael Jackson and E.T. that came in the Collector's Boxed Set of "Michael Jackson Reads and Sings the story of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial". On Cassette tape, so i could listen to it on my new "Ghetto Blaster". This was by far the most intuitive Christmas Gift I ever recieved. I loved Michel Jackson. I loved E.T. Even though I had never heard of this item, somehow this marriage of my two great loves made its way down my chimney in to my arms!
I must admit that I had my doubts about Santa up till then. If you still believe in Santa by the time you're 8, most of your classmates will be MORE than happy to help you overcome that little problem. And I must admit that Aaron Fowler had been pushing his whole "No Such Thing As Santa Clause" agenda on me prety heavily for years by then... but here was UNDENIABLE PROOF that Santa Exists! My parents would NEVER have been intuitive enough to buy such an item for me! They bought me stuff like SOCKS and PANTS! They bought things that were very specifically on my list and/or circled in the back of the Sears Wishbook! They bought me things like... like MILKSHAKE MAKERS!!!
But Santa knew better. Santa knows me :)
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