A Christmas Visit to Room 103 | Philip A. Farruggio

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Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust

Dec. 28, 2015

He was Santa Claus every holiday season at the local mall.

The photography company built a beautiful "Santa's Workshop" in the main lobby of the Kings Plaza, Brooklyn mall. There he would sit, usually in the late afternoons and evenings, after his college classes finished.

The money wasn't bad, maybe not as much as he would make driving a yellow cab, as he usually did on weekends. Yet, being Santa was fun, and he loved the little kids and all the attention being Santa brought him. After all, he was a Theater major wasn't he? His pal Johnny worked the job for a few shifts when he couldn't make it, but suddenly had to quit.

It seems that the itchy wool suit and the too-hot mall temperatures got to him. But, Johnny was just being Johnny, and even through his discomfort could crack anyone up with his sense of humor. As much as Johnny was correct about the suit and the heat, being Santa was too good a deal to pass up for this Theater major. He loved it!

The years passed by too quickly, and now he was a partner in a telemarketing business. Each Christmas, he and his partner would donate to old age homes a bunch of inexpensive oil paintings that usually were sent out to purchasing agents along with their orders. Or, they would give out the surplus pens and pencils from their stockroom to a local orphanage. Now that they were doing better than expected with their business, why not spread their good fortune around a bit? How much could that cost them to bring a little kindness to others less fortunate?

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