It was Christmas season and all the children were out in droves as normal and they were all flocking to the store downtown to see the person who was bringing their dreams on Christmas morning.
Guy Pearson.
Of course, Guy was the lucky person who had the job of being Santa and he had held the job for a few years in the department store where he saw hundreds upon hundreds of children in the holiday season, and he loved every minute of it. He had no children himself and he had been single for a long, long time, he was in his late thirties but showed no signs of leaving his early twenties ever! and sometimes when he was around the town you could swear blind he was a natural teenager forever. Yet aside from his good heart, he had somehow stayed single and as far as he was concerned, it wasn't all it was cracked up to be so far!
He awoke with a start as the bell on his alarm clock shattered the peaceful sleep from his apartment. He looked out of his window and saw the snow had appeared overnight and had covered every house in the whole view of his window. He shook his head and looked at the calendar, 23rd of December, only two days to go before the madness reached it's yearly peak and he had to find another job. Speaking of his job he looked at the clock and remembered he had a meeting at 8:30 in his bosses office. It was 8 o clock now! He washed and put on his Santa suit in record time and flagged down the nearest taxi to work, one of the benefits of being Santa was free transportation provided by the store. Taxi through the snow, not reindeer though. He arrived into the revolving door of the toy store and approached the receptionist who smiled at him in a strangely sexy way.
"Hello Santa" she said to him and chuckled to herself. "I trust the reindeer wasn't too much"
Guy was used to this sort of joke on him and shrugged it off.
"At least it's warmer than a reindeer! I've got a meeting with the boss?" he asked.
"Head on up he's waiting for you Guy" she replied
"Thanks a lot, I'll write down that you've been a good girl!" He laughed and rode the elevator up to the top floor.
The boss of the toy store was not the usual highly stressed manager type. If he was, he was certainly in the wrong job in a toy store. But his decoration sense was to be admired. The administrative floor was spotless and almost every metal surface was polished and shiny and the carpets were clean especially the one leading to his office. The boss had mentioned something about bringing someone else in to help guy with his work in the grotto in his grotto, which was welcome news as some of the people were getting overwhelmed with the never ending lines of children waiting to see Santa. It was definitely an unusual site for the rest of the employees of the administration to see Santa walking down the corridors towards the managers office with no sack on his back. However some of them felt that the boss had never been a very good boy and shouldn't get anything for Christmas, but they were the miseries. Most people have a sense of humour.
Santa opened the doors and the manager was reclined in his chair with his feet on his footstool hidden behind his desk, with yesterdays report lying opened on his desk.
"Nice to see he's working hard!" thought guy to himself as he approached the desk, until he was noticed.
"Ah Guy Santa, please sit down?" said the manager, and gestured to one of his comfortable leather chairs. It was this kind of furniture that made going to the managers office a pleasant trip and not as bad as it sounded.
He started leafing through the report in front of him as Guy sat in the chair feeling comfortable.
"Right," he began seriously, losing the relaxed look: "I see some of your helpers are asking for another person down in the grotto?"
"well," guy replied; "there are more and more kids, but since there's only a few days to go, it might not be worth it sir?"
"True but I don't want to overload you, I've brought someone in to be your Mrs Claus if you catch my drift."
Guy suddenly had the impression of a huge woman who would pass for a better father Christmas than he would, who wouldn't need padding. Speaking of padding, he was feeling very hot and took his beard and hat off. The boss looked objectful but he shrugged it off as he'd put it back on as soon as he left his office. He continued.