Friday, December 17, 2010

Tuesday is almost Wednesday

Tuesday was a slow day. There were the usual school groups in the morning, but other than that, the line stayed pretty short. Shortcake worked the Front Line and met Olivia. Olivia was a very talkative little girl. She was wearing a dress with a print on it, and she knew exactly which animal print it was (leopard). Later, she went back to tell Shortcake everything she had asked for from Santa. And the third time she saw Shortcake, she was riding in her stroller. Her mom was just going to wave and continue going, but Olivia put her feet down, stopped the stroller, and ran to Shortcake to show her the toys she had just bought.

There is something kinda great about kids stopping their parents in mid-stride to show toys to elves.

Everett, Forrest and Miles also visited Santa that day. They were 3 brothers from Tokyo, visiting with their mother and grandparents. Everett was slightly talkative. Forrest liked the trains. Miles refused to wake up.

There was a pirate in the line. Well, there was a little boy wearing a pirate sweater. Shortcake called Security, since she could only assume it was the Dread Pirate Roberts. But he made it through the maze anyway, and she saw him again at the exit, again calling for Security. Security did not respond quickly enough, and he got away.

There were two boys, clearly brothers or cousins or old friends, pretend fighting in line. They had their hands on the others' shoulders and were kicking each others' feet. Shortcake simply said "Hey" loudly, and they immediately dropped their arms and looked at her. She said "Santa's watching," just menacingly enough to make it clear that fighting in line, however friendly, would not be tolerated. And the boys immediately came to and behaved themselves. Shortcake didn't realize she had that kind of power over 8 year old boys.

There was a camera crew (from the NY Times?) while Shortcake was Gatekeeper, so, in theory, she may be in some press photos/video. If she can find them, she will post them.

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