Looking through old photographs last night the ghost of Christmas past visited me in the form of a monkey…Ricky the Santa Monkey to be exact.
It was Christmas 2004. I was 5 months pregnant. I had a 2-year-old. Those last two factors alone pretty much guaranteed a very hormonal holiday, wrapped up in a neat little package.
The hubby and I got in an argument over something, which I’m sure was exacerbated by my knocked-up condition.
He offered to escape my wrath take Miss C to the mall and when they returned he handed me this picture:
Yes for a small fee you too could have received this classy keepsake photo, complete with digital date stamp imprinted on the side. This is a family heirloom moment just waiting to be airbrushed on a t-shirt.
I laughed for hours over this picture…hours.
I cried I laughed so hard.
Well played hubby, well played.
Our local mall shut down not long thereafter, so let this be a lesson for you. If your mall is so broke they hire a monkey Santa, they probably won’t make it much longer. Our mall finally closed four years later. I’m sure the Santa monkey was a tipping point.
The real moral of this story, though, is for the husbands out there. Get thee to a mall with a Santa monkey if your wife is ticked off at you this holiday season. She’ll never remember why she was mad at you once you’ve made the pilgrimage to see a primate in a Santa suit.
This HAD to be in Bellevue Mall. We saw Santa Monkey there and I felt sorry for the little guy! I don’t think the mall hired him, I think his owner came and set up his little dinky background and took pics on the fly. Well played, indeed!
Yes! I keep stalking the news reports of the mall’s reopening. Just doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen.
I think Ricky might have been from Cheatham County (Pegram or Kingston Springs.)
I’m seriously bothered by Santa Monkey.
This post made me laugh so hard! Thanks for sharing!
That is just a hilarious picture!!
You can’t make stuff like this up. Hilarious!
What I wouldn’t pay for a photo with Monkey Claus.
Laughed REAL hard aaaaand then I was all, like, “Who’s the monkey?” [snort]
LOL, made my day
I see a future for this photo on the Awkward Family Photos website. Santa Monkey? What is that all about???
I love this picture! The monkey in the santa suit! It’s so funny!! This made me laugh and made my day!
This is such a cute picture. I’ve never seen a monkey dressed up for Xmas.
This is too funny. My husband would have been online waiting to get a picture taken too, he would have found it hilarious.
Monkey Santa RULES. I would drive any distance to have my picture taken with Monkey Santa.