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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 219042" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>OMG! Are you sure you don't live in the same town that I do? But our 'big' Christmas parade is next Thursday! Every church has a float, lots of little Cub Scouts and Indian Guides, people on horses, all the fire engines and police cars, and the Shriners clowns, bless 'em! Our town is so little we don't even have a marching band - we have to borrow one from a neighboring county every year! I live right in the middle of town and the parade goes by a half block from my house on two sides.</p><p> </p><p>Only difference is that here, some of the bigger kids shove the little kids aside to grab all the candy! A good friend of mine from work is a Shriner and he was the Santa Claus on the float in the parade for years. Last year I watched while one particularly obnoxious older kid would run out every time and grab all the candy before the little ones could get it. The parade had come to a standstill for a minute and I saw my friend, in his full Santa regalia, motion to the kid and the kid went up to the float - he talked to the boy for a minute and the kid actually turned around, walked back to the sidewalk, and sat down meekly on the curb! I couldn't tell what he had said to him, so I asked him the next day at work. He said, "I told him, <em>'Boy, if I see you do that again I'm going to come down off of this float and kick your a-- to the curb</em>!'" Apparently the threat of being humiliated by having physical violence inflicted on him in public by <em>Santa Claus</em> was enough to persude him to aspire to better behavior!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 219042, member: 1883"] OMG! Are you sure you don't live in the same town that I do? But our 'big' Christmas parade is next Thursday! Every church has a float, lots of little Cub Scouts and Indian Guides, people on horses, all the fire engines and police cars, and the Shriners clowns, bless 'em! Our town is so little we don't even have a marching band - we have to borrow one from a neighboring county every year! I live right in the middle of town and the parade goes by a half block from my house on two sides. Only difference is that here, some of the bigger kids shove the little kids aside to grab all the candy! A good friend of mine from work is a Shriner and he was the Santa Claus on the float in the parade for years. Last year I watched while one particularly obnoxious older kid would run out every time and grab all the candy before the little ones could get it. The parade had come to a standstill for a minute and I saw my friend, in his full Santa regalia, motion to the kid and the kid went up to the float - he talked to the boy for a minute and the kid actually turned around, walked back to the sidewalk, and sat down meekly on the curb! I couldn't tell what he had said to him, so I asked him the next day at work. He said, "I told him, [I]'Boy, if I see you do that again I'm going to come down off of this float and kick your a-- to the curb[/I]!'" Apparently the threat of being humiliated by having physical violence inflicted on him in public by [I]Santa Claus[/I] was enough to persude him to aspire to better behavior! [/QUOTE]
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