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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We were talking in public about Santa (DC questioned who the guy in a Santa suit was) I said it was a man dressed up and told st nics story. 
When I mentioned Santa isn't real a person who was walking behind us jumped and told me to watch out and be careful with what I say because I could ruin someone's Christmas.

So am I supposed to whisper? I need a reality check here. [/quote]

I grew up in a religion other than Christianity, and even as a kid knew that you don't say Santa isn't real in public.  Come on, OP.[/quote]

Well, I didn't know that, and I grew up in a religion other than Christianity but went to a Christian school. It really never came up. And I don't think about it. I'm sorry if I don't child-proof my conversations but when my kid asks me about Santa or anything else, I don't look around first because it really never occurs to me. If he ran up to me and said "Joey says there's a Santa" and Joey was right there with him, ok, it would occur to me. But if Joey isn't around and it's just us on the metro or out walking or whatever, it doesn't occur to me to tell him anything but what we believe. We don't do Christmas or Santa, we don't even think about them except when someone wishes us a Merry Christmas (to which we, of course, say "thanks, you too"), and it does not make me an asshole to live a different reality than you do. I'm just not walking around all the time trying not to burst everyone's magic bubble because it's a bubble I am only peripherally aware of. Maybe that makes me oblivious, but it's certainly not an intentional asshole-dom. Christmas and the "holiday season" and Santa and gifts just do not figure in my life. At all.[/quote]

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