The case was in the nineties. My mother - a school teacher - came to mind the idea of how to congratulate the boys before the new year. A good day was chosen, children on the bus were taken on a natural science tour to the nearest forest - bird feeders were hanged, traces were sought. Prior to the same forest was equipped with a team of three people - the driver and two teachers in the costumes of Santa Claus and snowmen, who dressed a cute tree tree on a slope and hid balls with gifts under it. When the excursion "accidentally found" a decorated tree in the forest and the REAL Father Christmas came out to them from the REAL forest - there was no limit to children's enthusiasm!



Santa was my two-meter-old father, and his costume was very colorful.



And in one year while waiting for the children, the father, being already at the full parade, went to the forest a little further away and hears: "Tyk..Tyk..." Looked out for the swarm - and there a man with a towel is broken up. Well, the father and approached him quietly, put his hand in the gloves on his shoulder and as a whispered bass:



“Why are you, man, stealing my straw?? to



Such protective eyes the father had never seen... Well, behind a tail and one wheel, that man never returned, as much as the father did not scream after him...