Before visiting the clients, Santa went to the supermarket to purchase some items, then took them to his truck. While loading them in the back he laid his wallet and phone on the truck bed.
Oh, oh, you know where this is going, don't you?
After driving a while he needed to make a phone call - but no phone. And no wallet. Where were they? Santa headed back to the market, hoping and praying he'd left them where he checked out and the cashier had them.
But, of course, she didn't.
So he got back in the truck and tried to replace his steps. Finally (and this is amazing) he saw the phone on the street, looking like it had been run over several times. Santa stopped the truck in heavy traffic, jumped out and grabbed the phone.
Then he saw the wallet!
He grabbed it off the busy street, looked it over, but "oh, no,!" the contents (credit cards, driver's license and all of the essential things we carry in our wallets) where GONE! It looked just like somebody had picked up the wallet, emptied it, and threw it away again.
So here Santa is standing in the middle of a busy street with his empty wallet.
But then, amazingly, almost magically, he could see a trail of cards blowing down the street. And so, on foot, weaving in and out of traffic, he managed to find almost everything.
People are probably still talking about the crazy Santa on Highway 436.
It was a modern Christmas miracle that it all came together. And here's an additional one. His phone had a great protective case on it so it was working fine when he was telling us this story last night.
Merry Christmas.
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