The Glade 4.0

I was out shopping for groceries and while perusing the honey crisps currently in the market a little girl, about four, asked me if I was Santa Claus. Her mother, embarrassed, took her by the hand and led her away. In parting the mother (young enough to be my daughter) looked at me and said "You do look like Santa, kind of."

I had on black slacks and a red floral Hawaiian shirt.

I went home and shaved off my beard. I'm just not in the mood for that this year.

New pic later. When I get around to it.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

I re-read the first sentence a few times because I read it to mean that you were out shopping and were in the market for a little girl, about four.

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

No, they may be a bargain to begin with, but they are expensive to maintain and do not hold their value. Sometimes you can't even give them away without it costing you a small fortune.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

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Anyway, nothing wrong with Santa Claus. One of the most beloved -people?- of all time.

Yeah whats the deal with not wanting to be santaesque?

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I receive several requests annually to play Santa, for free, supplying my own costume, having to take off work to do what they want. I choose not to do this. I have grown tired of turning folks down. A friend of mine does do the Santa gig, and he says he makes about 12-15 k every year doing so. It is a business, not one I'm in, and I choose not to give away time, effort, and resources. Maybe after I retire and have the free time, but not right now.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

That's not the same thing as being mistaken for Santa Claus. Looking like Santa Claus is a great boon in other ways as well. When I was in Texas I was told to find an electrician whose description was "looks like Santa Claus" At least I knew I had the right guy.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"