I Was Mistaken For A Girl

During the Christmas holidays in the early to mid-90’s, I went to a Blockbuster Video store to rent a couple holiday movies with a woman I knew then.

Some guy dressed as Santa was talking to a clerk. As we walked past them, Santa said, “There go two lovely young ladies.”

I stopped, turned around and Santa did one of those grimacing things and I walked up to him and said, “For your mistake, Santa—you can make it up to me by having my dream car parked in front of my house Christmas day.”

He apologized profusely saying he would do his very best for me.

Back then, I had a bit of a long ponytail and that was why he mistook me for a girl.

Never did see a car come Christmas day.

And yeah, that's me about 25 years ago in the picture with a ponytail.