Bobeddy
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Post by Bobeddy on Dec 17, 2007 14:13:41 GMT -5
Christmas is quickly approaching, and that means that Santa is loading up his slegh and getting ready to leave the North Pole.
I'm sure that a lot of people may be of the opinion that to them Christmas isn't that big a deal anymore. Sure you might get into the season, but it doesn't hold the magic it did when you were small.
But remember as a kid, the excitement when you'd go to bed on Christmas Eve? Waking your mom and dad up at about 5am to see what Santa had left under the tree.
So when did it happen for you?
When did you find out that Santa wasn't real?
Did your parents tell you, or did you find out from some kid from school? How'd it make you feel?
Or maybe you were one of those kids who never believed?
Me I stopped believing when I was about 9 or 10.
But no-one ever told me.
Not till I was about 12. My mom asked me what I wanted for Xmas and then cautiously added "You know there's no Santa right?".
I laughed and reassured her that, yes....I knew.
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Post by chibidiablo on Dec 17, 2007 14:22:54 GMT -5
My friend told me when I was aout 9. I punched him
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Dec 17, 2007 14:25:25 GMT -5
Bout when I was 6 or 7.
That was when during our department store trips, my parents started giving me money to go buy presents on a list for specific family members for when we went to the family exchange on Christmas Eve.
No one explained anything to me, kinda just realized it.
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Bobeddy
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Post by Bobeddy on Dec 17, 2007 14:29:33 GMT -5
My friend told me when I was aout 9. I punched him Couldn't roundhouse yet, I guess? |
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Post by Go 2 Sleeeeeeeeeep! on Dec 17, 2007 14:31:18 GMT -5
Santa's not real?  |
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Post by Secret Clown on Dec 17, 2007 14:31:41 GMT -5
Can't remember how old I was but it was when I found my presents in my parents room before Xmas. After that it was never the same.
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Erik Majorwitz
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Post by Erik Majorwitz on Dec 17, 2007 14:33:53 GMT -5
What are you talking about? Santa isn't real?
(tears streaming down face)
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Post by gsguy on Dec 17, 2007 14:34:46 GMT -5
Some kid in my religion class out of all places blurted it out when I was 8 or 9.
Parents told me when I was 10 or 11. Wasn't that shocked.
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Bobeddy
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Post by Bobeddy on Dec 17, 2007 14:38:56 GMT -5
Santa's not real? What are you talking about? Santa isn't real? Hmm? Maybe I should put up a spoiler warning? |
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Post by mcmxzyptlk on Dec 17, 2007 14:41:35 GMT -5
To be honest, I don't remember when I found out Santa ain't real.
I just remember being three years old, and constantly "reminding" my aunts and uncles of the fact during Yuletide.
I think we ought to stop telling kids that Santa isn't real and just come clean.
"Timmy...it's not that Santa isn't real..."
"Really, mom?! Where is he?"
"...it's more that he's dead."
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Dec 17, 2007 14:41:44 GMT -5
Santa is like kayfabe... STILL REAL TO ME, DAMMIT !!  |
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Post by jamofpearls on Dec 17, 2007 14:44:50 GMT -5
1st or 2nd grade. I found Ecto 1 in a closet, and that was one of the things santa brought me.
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Post by Macho Dude Handy Damage on Dec 17, 2007 14:46:41 GMT -5
you know, I dont remember... I must not have made a big deal out of it though, otherwise i probably would have remembered
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Dec 17, 2007 14:54:56 GMT -5
Also, for the day I stopped believing in him, I guess I just realized through time that Santa couldn' t exist, that it couldn' t happen... but I also realized that my family must really LOVE me for giving me all these presents year after year !  |
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Post by maxx420 on Dec 17, 2007 15:22:36 GMT -5
I'd guess about 10 or 11. I'm pretty sure I was in P7 when I was told by my Mum...
But it was the movie Gremlins that really revealed the truth to me.
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Post by -Lithium- on Dec 17, 2007 15:26:44 GMT -5
It was kinda like wrestling. People telling me for years that it/he was fake and then gradually I just went "yeah...that makes sense" and accepted it...
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Dec 17, 2007 18:53:46 GMT -5
When I realised Santa's handwriting on the gift tags was the same handwriting as my mums.
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Post by Johnny on Dec 17, 2007 18:56:54 GMT -5
It just kinda happened one day, I played along for a couple more years to make my mum happy. Then I started getting presents from my pets instead.
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Post by mcclanahan on Dec 17, 2007 19:02:45 GMT -5
my mom never let me think Santa was real, and I thank her for that, why should I believe in a lie like that
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Post by willywonka666 on Dec 17, 2007 20:10:22 GMT -5
Well he kinda is real in a way. He doesn't crawl down chimneys and such and eat your cookies, but he is one of the few characters that is so strongly talked about, that in a sense he is. And there certainly a guy long ago that answered to the name "St. Nick".
Right or wrong, this is what keeps me young and not a complete bastard in my life.
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