Well, I'm about to read to you a story that is a Christmas tradition.

When I first started speaking in public, people asked me to tell Christmas stories because, well, apparently people like to get together at Christmas and have some kind of story told.

Long ago, there used to be retellings of the Christmas carol via the radio.

And I've heard old-timers talk about what it was like to gather in front of the radio.

The old Notre Dame classic model, Phil Coe, classic model, and listen to Lionel Barrymore and various voice

actors read through old tales of Dickens and the night before Christmas.

Well, this story was one that I have been telling since I started telling stories as a guy who gets up in front of

public and embarrasses himself.

And this was the most popular thing I ever did.

People are always asking me to tell this story.

And I eventually wrote it down into a short story form.

And I'm going to read it to you here.

I'll quit wasting time.

And maybe this can improve your COVID-era Christmas with a new little Christmas tradition.

Music nation. Small towns like Moab, Florida, went all out for Christmas.

A team of fiberglass reindeer hung over hydrangeous streets suspended by steel wires attached to lampposts, and every store window was adorned with fake snow, fogging up the corners.

Even the pizza hut had plastic snowflakes on the windows.

Old Hadraniel found this amusing.

Snow in Florida.

What irony.

Humans were a lot better at irony than angels were.

The last time Hadraniel had been assigned to this part of earth was when the shores were first explored by the Spanish.

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