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Reports that Santa’s sleigh was stolen were not entirely correct. Silly (that’s his name), the elf, borrowed Santa’s sleigh to deliver some sugar cookies to a nearby herd of hungry reindeer who love eating sugar cookies.
However, Silly didn’t tell anyone he was using the sleigh, nor did he let anyone know that he would be gone for TWO WHOLE DAYS! Nor did he say to the elves who baked all of those delicious cookies that he was “borrowing “ them.
Oh boy, was Silly being really silly said Lucky, his brother. It’s lucky, said Lucky, that Silly wasn’t hurt driving Santa’s silly ol’ sleigh. “He doesn’t even have his sleigh driving permit yet! How silly is that?”
When the sleigh went missing, there was a lot of panic at Santa’s headquarters because Santa’s old sleigh, a 700-year-old cedar and pine relic, wasn’t big enough to accommodate all of the presents he needed to bring to the children the world over. Modification and restoration attempts to fix the sleigh ended when Silly flew back home.
Lucky said his parents, Constrained and Concerned, were quite upset with their silly young elf. So too, was Santa, who was trying to be serious. Santa picked up Silly and said in his meanest voice (which isn’t mean at all), “No more taking my sleigh for a ride! And then he beeped Silly on the nose with his chubby forefinger and gave him a long and hearty welcome home hug.
Meanwhile, Santa’s reindeer are fit as Stradivarius fiddles and ready to make the big romp around the planet on Christmas night. Rudolph is over his chest cold, Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, and Comet and Cupid all had Reindeer flu but are healthy now. And Donner and Blitzen are healed from their wrestling match. Plus, Blitzen’s front right paw had recovered from his accident when he flew low over the black spruce forest in nearby Canada and he accidentally clipped the head of a giant, bumbling sad singing Bigfoot. But that’s another story for another time.
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