“Oh, dear God!”
“Wouldn’t you?”
Ed sighed. “I don’t
know. But it was Santa who asked
him. I would have done it for him. ”
“Of course, you’ve always been a team player. I never played team sports. But it would be hard to turn Santa down. I bet the other reindeer were still nasty to
him as soon as they got back to the North Pole, though.”
“Can’t you talk about this with the kids or Karen and
Nikki?”
“You’d think Santa would have put a stop to it. I guess he was too busy. Maybe he didn’t even notice. You can sit and watch TV when the kids are
fighting in the next room.”
“Maybe he thought it was best to let them work it out for
themselves.”
That is a good
idea sometimes, especially when you’re too tired to do anything.
Then I thought of something else. “What if the next Christmas Eve wasn’t
foggy? They wouldn’t need Rudolph.”
“You do know that this is just a story?”
“Oh sure. The only
real Santa’s reindeer are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner,
and Blitzen. But it’s fun to pretend.”
Ed laughed. “Well,
maybe what’d I’d do would be to eat a lot of beans before we took off.”
I didn’t get it at first.
Then I did. I had to laugh.
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