10/13/09
Dear Santa,
Notwithstanding the forest of artificial Christmas trees that have sprung up in every store, it seems a bit early to begin my holiday wish list. (And, as you know, I’m a bit ambivalent about the whole wish list craze in the first place.)
So, imagine my surprise when I stumbled across this neon-lettered wish list at a nearby gas station/corner store (less than a mile from my house, no less.)
When the next sign flashed to encourage quick action (or layaway as Plan B), I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
I may be out of step with my neighbors, but I’m sticking with “world peace” on my wish list this year.
10-13-2009 06:57:38
OMG. Where on earth did you see this sign?
10-13-2009 08:37:50
This gave me a pit in my stomach. I can only imagine the school aged children who can read – and still beleive in the man in the red suit – reading this sign. “Mommy, why is Santa giving away guns this Christmas?” “Mommy does Santa have a gun?” I echo Kathleens O-M-G. Shame on that business!
10-13-2009 20:48:50
To raise it up a notch, I have received two calls from the NRA in the past month. Me? I’m about as opposite as you can get to their core target. That really blew me away. Maybe the only good news in all of this is that they’re really desperate – because sales are way off… Well, I had to check that assumption on my part and I was dead wrong. Gun sales have been spiking ever sense Obama’s election….
10-15-2009 10:58:07
Yes, nothing ushers in the season of peace and goodwill like ordering a gun!
10-20-2009 06:02:59
Santa’s “gun workshop” is located at the corner of Clifton and Wolf Run Shoals Rd. in Clifton, Virginia.