The Santa's Clauses Chapter 5

The cheque is in the post is something people say when they want to fob you off.  In my case, I didn’t even know it was it the post. But my amazing presence was getting results. People were flocking into my employers’ department store as if there were not tomorrow. More than 90% of them walked in clutching the voucher I would have given them, asking whether the offer applied across the board (it did). So… they gave me a bonus for attracting business their way. I became a You Tube and Facebook sensation. People were actually coming to look for me now, and that is why I never stayed in the same place, or even in the same town, for more than two hours. It was tiring – to the extent that I doubt whether I will accept the job if it is offered to me next year. Unless they hike up my wages. Fame is irrelevant. “Are you a giant?” The little girl looked exactly like Boo from Monsters, Inc., complete with pink baubles in her pig-tails, pink sack dress, lilac capris, and white socks. But this one had shoes. Expensive Pom Pom ones. It was surreal, I tell you. And then I looked at the adult accompanying her. Would he, too, be the clone of a virtual film star? No. he was a well-known person in...