Life's Funny That Way

Santa's Kryptonite

Prompt:  Santa keels over at a meal on Christmas Eve

Ummm… I’m not sure I can kill off Santa.  I just don’t have it in me.  After all, the guy is obviously immortal.  I mean, look how long he’s been around.  Plus he’s got that magic sleigh and flying reindeer and all…  I don’t think a guy like that can get killed off.  I’m sure he has his own “kryptonite”, as all magical and super-power-laden folks do, but I truly would not think it fair for a writer to use that against him on Christmas Eve.  Too many kids depend on him on Christmas morning.  How fair would that be?  As a kid, we usually celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve.  We’d hear some weird noise upstairs (never figured out how my parents worked that one out!), and we’d wonder what was going on… my sister, our parents, and I would be downstairs with a fire in the old Franklin woodstove watching TV and playing… maybe having some fondue (hmmm… I think I just dated myself there,  Oh well.  LOL), and suddenly there would be noises upstairs.  We’d look around until Dad would say, “I guess I better go up there and see what that noise was.”  We’d follow him upstairs, lagging way behind in case it there was someone in the house or it was monsters or who knows what else.  We’d peek around the corner at the tree and, Holy Smokes!  Santa had come.

My point with that is…. The kids who got their presents early on Christmas Eve may still get presents if Santa keeled over at dinner, but the poor Christmas morning kids wouldn’t.  We just can’t have that.  Christmas is a time for happy faces and love.  Killing Santa, even though the pen (or keyboard, in this case) may be mightier than the sword, it just can’t kick Santa’s butt!

Hmmm… one thing though…. What would Santa’s “kryptonite” be?  Hot sauce, perhaps?  After all, he hangs out in the coldest part of the world all year, and he wears that really heavy, big red suit.  Hot sauce might melt him a little.  But, then, he’s not made of snow or anything (please… he’s not Frosty, afterall!).  There’s got to be something… should this writer turn maniacal and truly want to do away with the big guy. *heads off to find the Potion and Spells kit*


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