"Dear Santa" letter from Tony Hicks: Family of 5, father of 3 girls, no boys.
Contra Costa Times/ Tony Hicks, Columnist, 12/20/12. "Hicks: All I want for Christmas is a pond ful
l of reptiles."
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| "Hello Tony, next year you'll need to be nicer !" |
"I told my family I don't want anything for Christmas this year. I lied. What
I said: Because of financial considerations (no money), no one had to
buy me anything. And I meant it. Besides, my garage is about to burst
with stuff. Not only do I have stuff from a family of five (mine), but I
have additional stuff from a couple of other people who have moved to
smaller quarters this past year. Sometimes I think, "
If only there were a
way to make the garage disappear (flamethrower) without harming the
rest of the house." Or someone could buy me an extra garage.
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| Certificate to Dad: "I'm not a boy, get over it." |
But
all this doesn't mean I couldn't use Christmas gifts.
I remember making
homemade gift certificates as a kid -- you know, "Good for
one car wash," "Good for one
leaf-raking," "Good for one snowmobile oil change," stuff like that.
Generally, the adults never collected and thought it was cute. Best of
all, I didn't have to spend any of the money I saved up for bi-weekly
96-ounce Slurpees and Hefty bag-size sacks of Doritos. Clearly, dental
hygiene was important to me when I was 11.
More than a promise. I
would welcome my kids doing the same thing (giving me homemade gift
certificates, not eating 74 pounds of Doritos in one sitting). And I
would think it was cute. And it would save them money. But unlike other
adults, I would totally collect. Just because a kid is cute doesn't mean
they shouldn't have to pay up.
---- Offering to wash
my car is
wonderful. But how about learning to fix it? I actually floated this
one by one of my girls, who looked at me straight-faced and said, "Good
luck with that. You should have had a boy." Wait until she brings home a boy someday, and I don't let her leave with him until he fixes my car.
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Posted by Kathy Meeh
1 comment:
Hi Santa..I know Conor because he is my neighbor and he has been a very good boy this year, especially to his sister Naomi and his dog Sonny. He deserves a great present.
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