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- From: chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: So This Is Christmas....
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 22:32:05 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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- C+ runs back into the bar, carrying a small bag of Xmas presents.
-
- "Merry Christmas everyone. Liralen, Didi, Kitten, Thyra, DM, Rowan
- and all you wonderful people.... ( Not in that order... =) )
-
- "This morning, I was wondering what one could do to make this Xmas a
- little more special. So I was reading the _San_Francisco_Chronicle_,
- and came across this article about letters to Santa Claus which ended
- up in the dead letter office of the SF post office. They're kept there
- so anyone can go in, read them and maybe reply to the gifts requested.
-
- "So... I went to the SFPO, and went to the DLO and looked through the
- letters. Some of them were quite funny, while some quite sad. One kid
- only wanted Santa Klaus to find her lost pet Shih-Tzu back, and all
- another wanted was for Santa to wake her up when he came so she could
- talk to him. Quite a number were really simple, asking for clothes,
- toys or dolls, though I think at least a quarter of the letters had
- requests for a Super NES system.... You should also see how the kids
- addressed their letters. 'Mr and Mrs Santa Claus, North Pole, 00000'.
-
- "Anyway, I picked up a letter from a woman who had simply sent in a list
- of six children, their ages ( from 2 to 12 ) and their sizes. The address
- placed the house in one of the lower-income areas of town, so off I was
- headed to Fao Schwarz and a sporting goods store to get some gifts.
- I had some doubts, of course, and actually tried to look her up in the
- phone book and called up a person with the same name, but it wasn't her.
- I thought to myself "What if they're not that needy??", then thought again
- "Maybe one shouldn't doubt so much. I don't think Santa does credit checks,
- does he???"
-
- "So now I'm at home, getting to ready to pack and gift-wrap a Gund bear
- and a SF 49ers cap. Big problem is, i don't have a car, and looks like
- this would-be Santa's gift is gonna be late. But I guess I had better try to
- get to a UPS station or try to find someone willling to loan me his
- car.... Nobody out there has a four-horse open sleigh, does one??? =)
-
- "Well, I hope it does make someone's Xmas season a little brighter.
- Merry Christmas to all, and don't drink and drive! Take care, I'll be
- off to Mexico backpacking on the 27th, so if you want me to drop you
- a postcard, dump me your address ASAP. "
-
- With that, C + runs out of the bar again, wondering if employment
- opportunities at the North Pole are better than those in the Bay Area...
-
-
- C +
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