空气的脆度很清脆，我的目标的假期部分发光，这意味着这是正式的圣诞节。
So while looking at funny holiday fails on the internet to get in the mood for the season, I came across this Reddit thread fromu/doubleeremandasking, "Mall Santas of Reddit, what is the weirdest thing a kid asked for for Christmas?" Some of the answers were shockingly...practical?
1.“我的叔叔是一个圣诞老人，他告诉我，一年，一个孩子要求一个咖啡制造商，因为他想开始自己的星巴克咖啡摊，而不是柠檬水摊。”
"Apparently, business was not very good as a lemonade stand, but he noticed that a lot of adults drink coffee, so he'd make coffee. That kid is probably a millionaire now."
2.“当我5岁那年，当时我在吉彭尼（Jcpenney）问一个真正的割草机，这是我父亲使用的那种割草机。”
“他们让我把麦克风拿到我的嘴里。我的答案（我想和其他孩子一起）在整个商店中播出。我仍然可以听到成人的笑声。”
3.“这个5岁的女孩告诉我，她想要'那些大声的角。'”
"She made a gesture like she was using those canned air horns, and she made a little horn sound. She said she wants to use it to wake up her baby brother when he naps in the daytime so he 'knows what it's like.'"
4.“在排队等待两个小时之后，我的女儿要求圣诞老人给一只热狗。”
5."At my daughter's preschool, there was a Santa. Kids were asking for the usual things, like toys and unicorns. One little girl went up. You could tell she was thinking really hard. She asked for two rolls of tape."
6.“我曾经要求没有外壳的面包。”
"Come Christmas Day, I actually got an entire loaf of bread with no crust."
7."My 9-year-old kid asked for light bulbs. I am sure Santa wasn’t expecting that."
8."When I was a little kid, about 3 or 4 years old, I told a mall Santa that I wanted blue juice for Christmas."
"The Santa looked at my mom like, 'WTF does he mean by this?' My mom was just as clueless as he was. My mom, being awesome, went out and got Hugs juice and only gave me the blue ones on Christmas. To this day, I have no clue why I wanted the blue juice. I just knew I wanted it, so that's what I told Santa. You bet your ass that I drank every last one of those things."
9."My neighbor was a Santa for a community brunch years ago, and a little girl asked for a cheeseburger."
"Not that odd on its own, I suppose, but an odd request for the holiday, and to ask of such an important and magical being."
10。“显然，我要求一个滚动的别针 - 不是小马，而不是芭比娃娃梦屋……一个滚动的别针。我仍然没有得到它。”
"When I called my mother and asked if she remembered why I wanted a rolling pin, she told me I wanted to hide it under my pillow and thought that it would be a nice weapon to fight an intruder with. Since moving out and getting a rolling pin, I’ve found a better use for it than the one I had originally thought of."
11.“我记得当我在购物中心小时候说她想要土豆的时候，我在我面前的那个女孩。我当时讨厌土豆，所以我被排斥了。”
12."A kid asked for 5 gallons of maple syrup. When the Santa asked him why, his response was that he liked to bathe in it and his bathtub could hold 5 gallons of water."
13."One year my brother asked for a dustpan."
"This was well in advance of Christmas, and everyone assumed he would just forget it and move on, but as a joke, one of his presents was, in fact, a shiny new dustpan, complete with the little mini broom. Of course there were also the typical toys you'd expect a 4- or 5-year-old to enjoy, but he wasn't particularly interested in those. Instead, he spent most of the next week or so sweeping things into his dustpan. Best present ever; it only cost two bucks, and the house was swept several times a day. So was the porch, and the yard, and the cat."
14."A shredder. This boy wanted a paper shredder."
“不知道为什么。但是在假期之后，他告诉我所有关于圣诞老人带给他的粉碎机上不同环境的信息。”
15."A toilet brush."
“我的父母仍然为此嘲笑我，我已经足够大了，可以和我的妻子在一起15年。出于好奇的想法，我不知道为什么我认为拥有自己的厕所刷，这真是太棒了但是我确实记得它的积累。是的，圣诞老人确实为我留下了全新的厕所刷子。”
16.Finally, this one: "When my daughter was 2, she asked for a red balloon."
“当圣诞老人问她还有什么问题时，她回答说她只是想要气球。当他问如果弹出她会做什么时，她回答说，'很好。那会让放入罐子里更容易。'
“大约两年的快进，我们开始与女儿一起为我的6个月大的儿子开始同一个夜间仪式...Winnie the Pooh阅读斯蒂芬·弗莱（Stephen Fry）。大约一个月左右，它打了我。我女儿两年前圣诞节想要的所有都是红色的气球，因为那是Eeyore生日那天得到的。她一直在听Winnie the Pooh每天晚上去睡觉，喜欢埃耶尔（Eeyore）对他的流行气球感到兴奋。我可能流下了一两只眼泪。”
