Christmas

Dyeing for Christmas: A Yuletide Barber Shop Catastrophe

Look out, Santa is having some hairy trouble!

Daphsam
Pure Fiction
Published in
5 min readDec 14, 2023

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One frosty Christmas Eve morning, Santa was greeting ready for a day in the workshop as Christmas drew near.

He had finished his ice-cold shower and dressed in his Christmas plaid shirt and red overalls for the day. When he wanted to comb out his white beard, he discovered his once snowy white beard had turned green!

“What in the world has happened to my beard!” hollers Santa.

Mrs. Claus dashed into the bathroom with her gingerbread perfume drifting into the room.

“Santa, what is wrong? Your scream almost caused a Christmas toy avalanche!” Mrs Claus said breathlessly.

Santa Claus turned around in a flash to show Mrs. Claus that his trademark snowy white beard had turned the color of a neon green Christmas light bulb.

“Look what happened to my beard,” cried Santa Claus.

“Now, don’t get your candy cane boxers into a twist,” Mrs. Claus said very calmly. “Let me see if I can figure out what happened to your snowy white beard.” Mrs Claus, with a pensive look on her face, did a lot. “hmmmmm,ohhhhh, ahhhh.”

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Daphsam
Pure Fiction

Dedicated mother, loving wife, dog mom, watercolor artist, creative writer, full of ideas, with humor and whimsy.