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I was told that on Jesus's birthday a large fellow in a red and white jacket flew around neighborhoods via reindeer sleigh and dropped into houses through their chimneys to leave presents for children. My parents said it was nice to leave cookies for him, but he never ate more than part of the cookies because he had many more houses to visit. My parents said that I could finish them off, but I thought that was gross.. Why would you finish a cookie somebody else started, especially somebody who had been crawling through chimneys all night? I don't want a partially eaten cookie picked up with a chimney tar-covered glove.
Still, everybody seemed okay with it, because everybody got a free gift unless they were bad, so I played along. Then one year I asked a friend what he was getting, but he wasn't sure what I was talking about. I didn't know Santa thought Jews were bad.
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