Do you believe in Santa Claus?
I saw this tweet on my feed today:
“gezelliggirl This is 2008: my kid, who has just lost a tooth, asked me to look up the Tooth Fairy on Wikipedia so she could see photos of it.”
I love this because it’s exactly what I would have done if I were a child today. When I was 11 or so I looked up “Santa Claus” in the encyclopedia. I read the entire entry, concluding that because he was in the encyclopedia, he “must be real.” I then used this infallible argument in a fierce debate with a boy in my class who insisted he was fake and that I was (and I quote): “A big baby” for still believing in him.
To prove him wrong, I brought the “S” volume in to class and showed him the entry (complete with illustrations of the Coca Cola Santa). He told me that I was (again, I quote) “retarded” and continued to berate me until our teacher took him aside and made him apologize to me.
A year later, when my mom finally confessed the truth (that being that she and my dad were actually “Santa Claus” and also the “Easter Bunny” and “Tooth Fairy”) I was furious that she let me so passionately and loudly argue something that was so ridiculously untrue.
“You were right for defending what you believed in,” she told me.
