Chapter 58
It’s almost here!!!
In spite of the new president, the sudden shortage of peanuts, a drop in the sale of certain whiten-power toothpaste and a shaky economy, Rudolph is prepared!!
He’s got his super-dooper Shinola out and he borrowed Blitzen’s wet look lip gloss for just the right touch so he’ll be right on schedule—up, up and away.
Granted he only HAS to work one night a year—NOT bad! And he DOES get a lot of publicity what with his red nose and all! But, dear hearts, I don’t think I’d trade places with him even one year.
Just ponder on the situation a while—you know that pool table Jody wants don’t exactly feel like a feather pillow on the sleigh.
And all those competition dirt bikes weigh a little more than marshmallows.
It ain’t goin’ to be easy to lift THOSE off the ground!
Not to mention the round little man who controls the gee’s and haw’s.
I saw him at the shoppin’ mall the other day and I betcha he’d make a bathroom scales moan!
Every dirt bike he unloads WOULD make the sleigh lighter for Rudolph BUT every one of the houses leaves milk and cookies. Santa surely CANNOT offend his good little boys and girls and besides he LIKES milk and cookies so there’s another pound.
Poor old Rudolph!! He goes home plumb tuckered out to listen to Mrs. Santa fret and fuss that Santa’s goin’ to drop dead with a heart attack or a fat-attack! She declares she’ll put him on a diet of lettuce and celery—BUT, alas, only cookies, sugarplums, and candy grow on the North Pole.
She threatens just the same and really, she does have a point. We’ve lived through new presidents before! Wever survived a shaky economy a few times! Peanuts WILL grow next year, and it doesn’t really matter about the president’s toothpaste OR Denture Cream!
But WHAT would happen If Santa Claus died—OR if Rudolph suddenly became too OLD to pull the sled? The world would fall apart no doubt! I mean, thin is beautiful, but Santa and the red-nosed reindeer are LOVE!!!
So Shinola that nose, Rudolph—listen to Mrs. Claus, Santa…
And to my readers—May all your days in the coming year be filled with the spirit of Christmas and may you find something to smile about every day.