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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:25 AM
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How old were you when you found out who santa wasnt real
Edited on Sat Dec-25-04 02:29 AM by JohnKleeb
I was like 9. I was at my grandparents place and my grandfather accidently or maybe purposely told me. I had an easier time believing that the tooth fairy and the easter bunny weren't real but it was hard for me to accept Santa Claus wasn't because of the fact you meet santa claus, rather a guy dressed up like santa.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:26 AM
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1. 7 big mouth fucking sistert - oddly I didn't take it too hard
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:27 AM
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2. same thing happened to my grandma
she was like that age and her sister and brother told her.
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many a good man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:27 AM
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3. I didn't know until you told me just now
Thanks for ruining the rest of my life!!!
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:27 AM
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4. what are you talking about, Kleeb?
Are you trying to tell me that Santa is a Freeper?
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derbstyron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:28 AM
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5. What do you mean "really was?"
Are you trying to tell me something?:spank:
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:30 AM
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7. You know, santa is really our parents and relatives
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:30 AM
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6. agh edited since no one caught my drift
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traco Donating Member (579 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:33 AM
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8. He is real
Norad tracker says he is real! They are tracking him.

:)
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:34 AM
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9. damn why didnt they have this track santa stuff when I was a kid
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derbstyron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:36 AM
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10. Our local news would track him. I dont know if they still do.
My parents would let me stay up late to watch the newcast, to find out where he was, and then I had to go to bed
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:37 AM
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11. I dont remember anything like that really
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 06:21 PM
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33. They did that here too
in the 60s, the local weather guy had a little cutout Santa in his sleigh and he would place it on the map and show its location every hour or so on Christmas Eve. It was pretty cool as I recall.
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traco Donating Member (579 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:43 AM
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15. Here is the Norad link
http://www.noradsanta.org/english/radar/index.html
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:37 AM
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12. Ten, as was my son.
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:41 AM
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13. Ten or so.
I know that I was completely sure of it by the Christmas of 1992, and I was 10 at that time.
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:42 AM
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14. I was five when I caught Santa in the laundry room with mom
With his pants down. To this day, reindeer make me cry. :cry:
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loudestchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:43 AM
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16. Ouch!
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Miami Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:52 AM
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17. I was 8
I caught my mom wrapping my presents. She told me Santa needed help so he asked her to wrap them for him. Nice try mom :-)
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:56 AM
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18. Thank you very much John for destroying one
of my few remaining illusions. I just don't think I can carry on living, now. :cry:
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regnaD kciN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 03:49 AM
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19. What do you mean, "Santa wasn't real?????"
:wow:
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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 03:58 AM
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20. I was six when I received evidence that Santa was not real
I did not make my parents aware of my discovery for a few years. I knew a good thing when I had it.
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Delarage Donating Member (716 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 01:41 PM
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21. I actually can't remember ever believing in Santa
I think I always knew, but I'm not sure. I certainly don't remember any big letdown when I was presented with the facts.
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cestpaspossible Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 01:43 PM
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22. Not real?
C'est pas possible!!
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jmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 01:58 PM
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23. I never believed in him
but I thought if I admitted that I'd stop getting gifts. I didn't like being lied to so I'd ask difficult questions such as "how does he visit us if we don't have a chimney?" I once asked my Dad why Santa didn't bring food to all the starving kids in Ethiopia (keep in mind I was about five when "We are the World" came out). My mom finally admitted to me there was no Santa after somebody at school told my older brother. She was shocked that I took it so well, especially since I think my brother cried.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:01 PM
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24. What makes you say Santa isn't real????
:-(
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neebob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:04 PM
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25. Fourth grade - at school, from my friends
I felt like the stupidest kid in the world, the last one to find out, and I'm still living in infamy with my former in-laws for refusing to fool my son about Santa Claus. They like to say he didn't have a childhood.
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nickgutierrez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:15 PM
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26. What???
You mean... he's not?

Then who...? how..? what...?

:cry:
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Spirochete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 05:35 PM
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27. I think I was 5
My mother levelled with me pretty early about Santa Claus and the tooth fairy, etc.
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 06:01 PM
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28. Around 9, I think
That seems to be the average age, doesn't it? I was already having suspicions and then my older brother, who was close to 18, opened a gift from Santa and said, "Thanks, Mom.... I mean, thanks Santa!" with sort of a shit eating grin on his face. It all came together in that moment.

I wasn't at all devastated - in fact, it made so much sense that it just seemed funny to have believed as long as I did.
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Cuban_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 06:01 PM
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29. He's not real?
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 06:06 PM
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30. good heavens
I never thought he was real; when you grow up with mentally ill parents and you worry constantly that your dad is gonna kill the entire family you don't care about such things. :o
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 06:19 PM
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31. He's not REAL??
I'm 51 and I still believe.
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The empressof all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 06:21 PM
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32. I have a secret....Santa is real
He comes into my brain right after Thanksgiving, causing me to spend money on gifts for my family and loved ones. Then I have to pay off his bills.
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