From my email. Poor wee ones but it is funny.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/featur...7.photogallery

Been there, done that. I can't tell you how many times we've stood in line for hours, only to have them freak out as soon as it was their turn!

What kills me is the parents who feel like, since they waited in line all that time, those kids are GOING to sit on Santa's lap, and they are going to get their damned picture! Poor little traumatized babies. That first picture is hysterical. Look at Santa's face.

Some of those Santas are pretty scary looking! Dead, soulless eyes staring at the camera...shudder...

lol

Those are fantastic! Has anyone read David Sedaris' Santaland Diaries? They're his (extremely humorous) account of working as an Elf at Macy's during Christmas. He talks about how parents react to crying children--his depiction is so funny!

I love number 18 and number 28 (with the caption) is a riot!

We tell kids not to talk to strangers, and then we make them sit on the lap of the strangest of strangers, men at the mall dressed as santa, the easter bunny, "Barney," clowns...

If an adult in a crazy costume isn't a "stranger," then who the heck is?