Our friend was the only customer in this dreamy department store. Through the intercom system Bing Crosby’s rendition of “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” played, and our friend felt a wistful melancholy as he longed for the home and the time that he no longer had…
He’d been sitting on his red and green velvet-upholstered chair for all of three minutes when one of the hyper, undisciplined brats spilled Mountain Dew in his snowy-white beard; and it’s a real beard and not part of the costume!