Lio by Mark Tatulli for December 10, 2021

Dreadful.

Poor Santa.

Come on Santa. Surely you are used to difficult kids like Calvin, Denise the Menace, sure others can think of more. Or maybe it is PTSD from all these other kids?

But they have waited so long…..

Translation in future: Santa is using his reindeer to hide behind, silently sh!tting himself.

Cute bat on the leash.

Suck it up Santa, some kids and their parents are worse

Is that Bat in a leash ? Call PETA !!

Good thing, Santa, that Lio isn’t carrying around the animals that can smell fear!

Another Mall’s Santa will be pleased to serve you.

I guess that’s why santa doesn’t participate in halloween.

Santa knows Lio’s reputation. And he can only do so much.

Jeez, Tatulli, after all your wailing and rending of garments over the past year where’s Liō’s and Santa’s masks? Asking for a friend.

Once, around Easter, my friends and I were at the mall, and the side said “The Easter Bunny is out eating carrots!” He was just coming back, escorted by two hot babes wearing skimpy outfits. I said “I wonder which one of those is ‘Carrots’?”

Lio is channeling his inner Jack Skellington

I can totally understand Santa’s trepidation. He doesn’t know Lio like we do.

Oh. We so wanted to see him……

But now he has something to feed his reindeer to.

I work with Santa at our local mall. “Santa needs to feed the reindeer” is our code for him needing an unscheduled break (i.e. the restroom).

Santa should have a big lump of coal ready for that one.

So Lio thinks Santa is fluent in snake, bat, lobster, spider, and cephalopod?

Sorry, Lio, too bad I’m not the one playing Santa.