Stores, restaurants, salons started piping out ye old Christmas songs early this year-- right around the first day of November. It's making my Christmas memories fuzzy. This is how I think the story goes now:
Mary and Joseph had to travel to New York for a family reuntion. Joe had a large family, so Mary tagged along reluctantly, owing to the fact she was vastly pregnant. Also, with the swarm of reuniting relatives from accross the coast and Joe's late RSVP, they were without room to stay with any of the families in the area as basements and guest rooms filled to capacity. They would have to hope for space at a Super 8 along the way. So they loaded up the station wagon to head north on the highway. Just outside of NYC, it broke down. Trying to make the best of the situation, Mary and Joe dropped the car off with a mechanic and headed into the city to check out glittering department stores until Uncle Marco could shuttle them out to the burbs.
Wanting to fit in with the festive environs, Mary wore a red sequined shirt and Joe sported a green sweater vest. They had just made it through the handbags sections when Mary's water broke and labor came fast and furious. Baby arrived, and the first to greet him were the janitors who showed up with mops in hand to clean up the mess. They brought the weary family some McDonald's and found a cardboard box recently emptied of a belts and wallets delivery to lay the sleeping newborn in while relatives were contacted.
Some international business men heard of the commotion. Having just secured some lucrative IT contracts in the city, they felt magnanimous and came to see the happy couple with good luck gifts. One brought a diamond tennis bracelet, another a Coach shoulder bag, and the final a generous bottle of Chanel. A high school show choir was performing in the mall and came to gather round the new baby, dazzling in the tinsel stapled around their wrists, and singing "A Very Jingly Night in Bethlehem." They thought the baby was the cutest.
The store was about to close when Joe's family had gotten word of the recent events. They decended upon the mall as a large mob with many flashing cameras and hurried the family out to their waiting cars to hasten them to the suburbs where suddenly space became available in cousin Marco's guest room.
Mary and Joseph had to travel to New York for a family reuntion. Joe had a large family, so Mary tagged along reluctantly, owing to the fact she was vastly pregnant. Also, with the swarm of reuniting relatives from accross the coast and Joe's late RSVP, they were without room to stay with any of the families in the area as basements and guest rooms filled to capacity. They would have to hope for space at a Super 8 along the way. So they loaded up the station wagon to head north on the highway. Just outside of NYC, it broke down. Trying to make the best of the situation, Mary and Joe dropped the car off with a mechanic and headed into the city to check out glittering department stores until Uncle Marco could shuttle them out to the burbs.
Wanting to fit in with the festive environs, Mary wore a red sequined shirt and Joe sported a green sweater vest. They had just made it through the handbags sections when Mary's water broke and labor came fast and furious. Baby arrived, and the first to greet him were the janitors who showed up with mops in hand to clean up the mess. They brought the weary family some McDonald's and found a cardboard box recently emptied of a belts and wallets delivery to lay the sleeping newborn in while relatives were contacted.
Some international business men heard of the commotion. Having just secured some lucrative IT contracts in the city, they felt magnanimous and came to see the happy couple with good luck gifts. One brought a diamond tennis bracelet, another a Coach shoulder bag, and the final a generous bottle of Chanel. A high school show choir was performing in the mall and came to gather round the new baby, dazzling in the tinsel stapled around their wrists, and singing "A Very Jingly Night in Bethlehem." They thought the baby was the cutest.
The store was about to close when Joe's family had gotten word of the recent events. They decended upon the mall as a large mob with many flashing cameras and hurried the family out to their waiting cars to hasten them to the suburbs where suddenly space became available in cousin Marco's guest room.
