Monday Dec. 18

Monday was a busy day.  How busy?  Well, Shortcake didn't pee from the time she entered Macy's until she left Macy's.  That's about 8 1/2 hours, peoples.  You know what's worse?  She didn't have to pee for that 8 1/2 hours.  That's called dehydration people.  It is not your friend.

Why was it busy?  Well, it was the Monday before Christmas.  Management increased capacity to the reservations, but didn't tell us, so we weren't properly staffed.  So we were trying to meet weekend demand with a weekday staff.  HAHAHAHAHAHA.  Also, the photo elves were not as, hrm, how to put this, bossy as they needed to be.  And that long line led to people being very, very angry at the front line.  Many elves were cursed out.  It was not pretty.

You know what else wasn't pretty?  The vomit on the floor in Santa's house.  Shortcake got called in, saw the vomit (luckily, most of it landed on the dad's shirt), called for housekeeping, went to get paper towels, came back, wiped it up, and let Housekeeping mop it up.

Oh, and Santa was busy because this article ran in the post, and this video hit Facebook.  While Shortcake is glad Santa is getting lots of visitors, the nature of the post and article annoy her.  Santa is not hidden in the back.  He's right where he needs to be.

Dewdrop was frustrated because she found a six year old who was sent on a mission, unaccompanied.  Dad was waiting in line, so the child was sent to try on coats with mom.  But the child couldn't find Mom because he was six.  Dewdrop tried to tell the mom that she couldn't take the coats into Santaland, and the mom snapped "We're fine."  Dewdrop tried to tell the mom that she needed to rejoin her husband before he entered the train, and the mom snapped "We're fine."  So Dewdrop walked away.

Remember Chuckles from years ago?  He used to be a white flower.  He visited Santa on his son's fifth birthday.


One girl, Sophia, left her visit from Santa crying that she saw a fake eyebrow and that wasn't really Santa.  Oh, she cried and cried.  Shortcake took her back to see Santa and Sophia warned Shortcake that "I'm very smart and I can tell what's real and what's fake."  She said that.  Treetop witnessed it.

Santa's real, ya'all.  Sophia learned firsthand.

These ballerinas visited Santa.


Santa had some special guests.



Check out the book they brought him.


Check out this amazing shirt.


Check out this card that Santa got.

Yeah, that's a zombie/vampire/terrifying Statue of Liberty.


And it's signed "Mavrick."

That's not terrifying at all.

In good news, Lollipop said Shortcake was doing a good job.  That's great, 'cause she stopped speaking English about an hour into her shift.  Shortcake forgot how to use her words to form sentences.