When the boy returned from his sleepover this past weekend, his friend was in tow. One of the great things about kids going to friends’ houses is they come back with all sorts of new ideas about what they absolutely-have-to-have-don’t-know-how-they’ve-lived-without. In the boy’s case, this item turned was his friend’s Nintendo DS.
What was amusing was that his friend decided to be helpful and suggested that the boy ask for it for Christmas. After all, that was how his friend had obtained his DS. They then proceeded to argue about how Santa got the DS. On the one side was the boy, insisting that Santa’s elves made the DS. After all, that’s what the elves are for, right? For his part, his friend was very confident that Santa bought the DS, because there had been some sort of sticker on his when he got it. The lass was in her brother’s corner, but I think she would have been willing to switch given a more convincing case.
I was asked to moderate, but chose not to since stuff like that is way above my pay-grade. Although later, I wished I said that Santa probably has his elves purchase the DS from Amazon, that way the elves have more time to build other stuff. That would have been a nice way to split the baby.