Christmas Ball

Two Christmases ago my Dad sent me a parcel of gifts, chocolates, etc. Also enclosed was a nativity scene, still in it's original packaging. Dad said his neighbours gave it to him when they moved. Because Dad already had one, he saved it for me, unopened. So I'm happily listening to X-mas tunes and talking on the phone to my Grandma while unwrapping each little piece of the scene. Tucked inside the baby's cradle was a little brown paper package. When I unwrapped it, meanwhile narrating the experience to my Grandma and describing each piece, I learned what the miracle of Christmas is reallly about. Inside the package was a deck of pornographic (gay men) playing cards!

"Oh, Eddie... If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be more surprised than I am now. " –Clark Griswold, Christmas Vacation [1989]