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[โ€“] firkin_slang_whanger@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That's exactly what I did back in the day. My parents were dumbfounded. I remember wanting to sleep in the living room because I needed proof Santa was real. Needless to say, I've been a skeptic about stuff like that ever since.

[โ€“] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

One year I had a plan to put a "Welcome Santa!" sign in front of the fireplace in a way that it would have to be torn by Santa to get into the house. If I woke up and the sign was torn, then Santa was real and he came.

Unfortunately, I made the mistake of trusting my parents and telling them my brilliant plan. Needless to say, the sign was torn even though Santa never actually came :-(

Little did I know that this was the beginning of a lifetime of intractable skepticism