Once I got to the mall, I knew I had a few minutes before my shift started. I took out my phone and took a picture of myself for Hannah. Knowing well enough that she's going to show this to some cute guy whenever she gets the chance. Not that I have a problem if she wants to show some cute guy, I may not be ready to date right now, but hey let some guy know that he could have a chance with me.
Me: "Here"
Hannah: "omg u look so adorbs"
I made a face when she wrote the words adorbs, if you're going to say adorable, just say it.
Me: "are u going to show this picture off?"
Few seconds later her text came in...
Hannah: "maybe?" 😉
I rolled my eyes.
Hannah: "Girl u r really cute, own it. Guys should be all over u."
At the moment that wasn't the case, I made it known that I'm not in the mood to date anyone. Guys do try though, and I know I'm not the prettiest girl in the world. I'm average looking, with average looking blue eyes and frizzy blonde hair, and I'm not super skinny, I'm sorta curvy. My curves are all in the right places though.
Me: "whatever lol."
The clock said eight o clock. My shift starts in a few minutes, so I get out of my car and walk over to the front door. Before I can get inside I see Benny, our "Santa" he's standing outside smoking a cigarette, good thing he wasn't dressed as Santa just yet, I think it's the last things kids would want to see.
"Hey kid!" a puff of smoke came from his mouth as he greeted me. Don't get me wrong, Benny is a really sweet guy, I met him as soon I got hired as one of the elves. He's really short and fat, and he has a little hair , he kind of looks like Danny DeVito. "Hey Benny." I smile at him. "Ready for your first day?" He takes another puff from his cigarette. "Oh, yeah! Definitely!" I was trying to sound optimistic, pretty sure I failed though. Benny laughed at me, "You'll be fine!" He assured me.
Benny put out his cigarette, and the both of us went into the mall together. Already there was a line of kids waiting for Santa to arrive. My manager Kim walked over to us, "Alright, Kassie once Benny is all dressed let the kids in."
"Okay!" Kim looked over at Benny, she looked kind of annoyed by him. Apparently Benny has been the Santa here for the past ten years, and he's always late for work. They almost fired him a few times, but they didn't really want to find anyone else to play Santa. There were only a few times that Benny had to miss work, so they had to find back up last minute.
As soon as Kim walked away, Benny looked over at me, "She's always so bossy!" I laughed, "Well, she is the boss." Benny didn't laugh back. He went on to the dressing room to get ready. The kids were starting to get rowdy and shouting for Santa, I walked over and I tried getting through the crowd. Some of the parents kept asking , "where is he?" And "what time is he supposed to come out?" Others were saying "hurry up" or "can we move this along"
Calm down Karen.
When I got up into the Santa's village, I got ready to let the first kid in. This kid looked like he was too old to sit on Santa's lap, but we weren't allowed to say no to the kids. Benny came out all dressed up as Santa and all the kids began screaming with excitement. The kid I was letting it started jumping up and down. "Ho ho ho!" Benny I mean Santa shouted.
The kid ran over to Benny before he even had a chance to sit down.
One by one the children came in and sat down on Benny's lap, told him what they wanted for Christmas, I would take their picture and hand them a candy cane. This kept going for about three hours, then finally another elf came in and took my place.
"Time for your break." He said.
I got down from Santa's village and went up to the second floor to the food court.