Submitted by Steve Shaffer steven.shaffer@conwaycorp.net
Once
upon a time...
Not long ago and not far away Santa was getting ready for his
annual
trip...but there were problems everywhere...four of the elves got
sick,
and the trainee elves did not produce the toys as fast as the
regular
elves so Santa was beginning to feel the pressure of being behind
schedule...then---Mrs. Claus told Santa that her mom was coming
to
visit...this stressed Santa even more...when he went to harness
the
reindeer he found that three of them were about to give birth and
two
had jumped the fence and were out heaven knows where...more
stress.
Then when he began to load the sleigh, one of the boards on the
sleigh
cracked and the toy bag fell to the ground and scattered all the
toys...so, frustrated, Santa went into the house for a cup of
coffee and
a shot of whiskey...but he found that the elves had hit the
liquor
cupboard and there was nothing there to drink...and in his
frustration
he dropped the coffee pot and it broke into hundreds of little
pieces
all over the kitchen floor...he went to get the broom and found
that
mice had eaten the straw it was made from. Just then the
doorbell rang
and Santa cussed on his way to the door...he opened the door and
there
was a little angel with a great big Christmas tree. And the
angel said,
"Santa, where would you like to put this Christmas
tree"? And that, my
friend, is how the little angel came to be on top of the
Christmas
tree...