So, I’d heard of this Krampus guy before — you know, the naughty fellow to St. Nick’s nice? I just never realized that the horned one was such a…thing. In some alpine towns, young folks get super competitive making elaborate Krampus costumes, then run around tormenting little kids with branches — they even have parades! It’s like the Nightmare before Christmas reimagined by Fangoria. And ladies, let’s not forget Perchten.
This sure beats the Christmas parades I remember from growing up. Of course, the parades of my youth were horiffic in a whole different way. One year, my mom basically forced my sister and I to sell mistletoe to strangers at the parade, and when we didn’t sell it all, she dropped us off in front of a grocery store on the weekend before christmas and had us sell it there. For a less than merry introvert, it was a pretty awful job, especially considering that the only thing that mistletoe is good for is making people kiss (or poisoning babies), which is pretty gross when you’re a ten-year-old boy. The only good thing about the whole mistletoe fiasco was watching my stepdad blow the parasitic plant out of treetops with a shotgun. When you’re a ten-year-old boy, using shotguns as a labor-saving device — pretty cool. Not Krampus cool, but cool enough.
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Ahaha, I’m sorry about your past hardships regarding Christmas, but that parade looked pretty sweet. I’m kinda worried what children might think though. “Oh mom,mom,mom! Let’s go to this parade! Parades are so colorful and kid-friendly!” Wrong.
Well last year on Christmas Eve, my brother filled the minds of my parents with ideas of opening all the presents that night. They really considered it, but I had to fight them for an hour or so to convince them otherwise. It’s not that easy when 4/5 of the family is against you.
Funny, I must have blocked that memory out >.< Sounds like something she’d put us up to tho.
You’re the sibling of Jake-Sensei?! Sweet.