Can you find all Christmas song titles and references in this real dialogue I had at the gas station today?
“Hey man, Happy Holidays. just the gas?”
“And a coffee, please.”
While waiting for the machine to give out the coffee:
“Are you driving home for Christmas?”
“Sure! I can’t wait to see those faces. What about you?”
“No, I won’t be home for Christmas.”
“Really.”
“Yeah, my Mom told me: ‘All I want for Christmas is you’, but stepping into last Christmas wasn’t too holly jolly for me.”
“Man, I wish it could be Christmas every day! How come you don’t like Christmas?”
“What Christmas means to me is: I must be Santa.”
“You must be Santa?”
“I must be Santa. For the kids in our community. Plus, the weather outside is frightful.”
“It is but that just makes the fire so much more delightful. Aren’t you dreaming of a white Christmas?”
“Yes but when I was Santa last Christmas one kid accidentally hit me in my jingles… If you know what I mean.”
“Right in your sleigh bells?”
“Yes, so the entire twelve days of Christmas my true love gave to me an ice pack under our Christmas tree.”
“Mary’s boy child Jesus Christ. That sounds intense.”
“It sure is. The only thing rocking around the Christmas tree for me was pain.”
“So it was a blue Christmas for parts of you?”
“Yes… Do you know what?”
“What?”
“I don’t know you… Why am I telling you this? I just bought some gas and a coffee off you and now I’m telling you one of my most intimate stories? Why?”
“I know why.”
“Tell me… why?”
“Do you know it’s Christmas time at all? This is the most special time of the year and thank god it’s Christmas, because that is when you miss your family most and that is why you had to tell a stranger about your feelings.”
“Wow… Christmas is coming…”
“Yep.”
“All through the night…”
“Yep.”
“I better go tell it to the mountain.”
“The mountain?”
“My roommate works out.”
“Oh, yes you should. Maybe he’ll even spend Christmas with you.”
“No, he’s spending his Christmas in Harlem.”
“Well, tell him anyway.”
“I will.”
“You can let your sleigh bells rock.”
“Ehm…”
“Go on a one man sleigh ride.”
“Ok, see you.”
“Merry Christmas!”
Next week we’ll see how well you can track Christmas movie titles and references.
PS: Remember to be the weirdest you can possibly be!
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