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Don't tell me we don't know how to look after children out here...All behind bars, like they should be!! (repeat serial offenders, 'Excessive Giggling')
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The big man himself. (skinny man in a fat suit wearing fake beard and polyester suit in an Australian summer)
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Here in Australia we have this little custom, I don’t know where it came from but it involves fake snow, fake reindeer and a fake fat bloke in a red suit and fake beard all lumbering down the main street accompanied by various ‘floats’ in 40 degree heat. (105deg F)
For those of you who don’t know, a float is a contraption built onto a truck or trailer trying to look like something completely different, from dinosaurs to fairy castles… I cant look at one of these things without wondering how it would go in a demolition derby …and I’m pretty sure that would attract more enthusiastic onlookers..
This year was no different, bored parents looking on as their kids and grandkids scuttle about grabbing lollies thrown by strangers dressed as clowns. I didn't meet a single adult who was happy to be there…but thousands of kids who were wrapped in every tinsel covered lie.
The aim of the day seems to be to fill every pocket with lollies then fill your belly with Fairy Foss, chips, ice cream and drinks then try to make it home without spraying the inside of the car with partially digested junk food... and while we’re on about the aim of the day there seems to be no end of copyright infringements, one could almost think there seems to be a deliberate attempt to bring publicity by law suit.
But here’s the thing…all year we teach our kids about stranger danger and insist they are careful in everything they do and say…then this one day we encourage them to take candy from strangers and push them forward to cuddle ‘Santa’.
I’m thinking it’s time to cancel Christmas and replace it with something more relevant… like ‘national pelt a stranger with lollies day’.
3 comments:
I know, I know, but some myths are worth perpetuating just for the joy that they bring to kids of a certain age :)
Dont I know it Joanna, thats why we were there at all. I just like to find the funny side..or failing that just poke fun at our strange traditions. Aussies tend to follow other countries traditions because we dont have many of our own to fall back on. We're even trying Halloween and eating Turkey now...Yuk! LOL
Nope, the worse float I ever seen for the Red Deer Legion. 8 ladies around a table drinking coffee with no decoration from the back flatbed truck. No candy to throw to the kids. Just old ladies drinking coffee and hoping to die.
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