Redneck Christmas

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Comment by Cathy Parker on January 7, 2012 at 8:08pm

You got some good memories there.  Reminded me of when I was little.  They needed somebody to play Santa at the church.  We put on the little kids play the Sunday night before Christmas and some people like to bring presents for friends at church that night.  We wanted to get a Santa to pass them out.  So, they got my Papa.  Now, Papa and Grandmother were on two very different planets  Grandmother was "old south."  You know, Gone With The Wind typ Old South.  Very proud.  Papa on the other hand was the biggest drunk redneck on moonshine you'd ever seen.  Now, he wasn't a big man.  Actually, he was kind of shrimpy in his later years.  People were passing out presents and wondering where Santa was.  Then, the back doors of the church flew open and there he come.  DRUNK AS A SKUNK...in his Santa suit and didn't EVEN try to put a pillow under the coat.  Murry Christmas, Ya'll.  Hap....hick.....Hap....hiccup...Happy Nuyurrrr.  Grandmother all but disappeared under the pew from embarrassment.  He went to a little boy sitting on his mother's lap, stuck his face right in the childs face and said HO HO HO.  The little boy started crying.  Probably from the smell of shine.  He did get to pass out the rest of the presents though.  Papa died in 75.  But, I still remember that night.  I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.