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Sometimes Christmas is Stressful. You’ve just had it. The kid in this photo is at the end of his patience. I imagine he endured being dragged by his mum or dad to do a bunch of shopping for Christmas presents for a few hours, and then they had the nerve to subject him to posing with Jolly Saint Nick, for some insult to injury.
Have you reached this stage yet? Is it likely?
Any responses, caption ideas, or Christmas updates to report?
In Germany/Austria, Saint Nick and Krampus go around like a good cop/bad cop team. Krampus, a whip carrying, horned goat demon, with a long red tongue takes the naughty ones, while Santa Claus rewards the good ones. (Notice the whipping switches on his back. THAT’s gonna leave a mark!)
Now we just buy the kids high tech toys as bribes for being well-behaved…?
The lighting and the faces in this weird Santa photo seems to point to a pre-photo backstory.
My proposal is that just before this was taken, Santa give little Buddy here a rap on the noggin with his gloved knuckle.
Here the kiddo is saying, “Ouch…what the holly, Santa!”
We’d like to read your theory.
Things were so innocent and sweet in the old days…um. no. Santa wouldn’t put up with any nonsense. As shown here, back in the day, if you weren’t good, Santa would bag you at Christmas, water board you, and you’d never be seen again.
Tell us what you think!
Double your pleasure. Double your fun. Take toddler twins to sit on the lap of a large stranger, in weird red
pajamas who smells like Irish Coffee. HO. Ho. Ho.
Were YOU scared of Santa as a kid?
