Santa? Seriously?

By Terry O'Reilly

Ivan Tykovsky is a security guard at Hinkleman’s Department store and has come to despise the shopping element of Christmas. The holiday season means his workload of apprehending shoplifters and breaking up fights over merchandise increases.

When the Santa the store has booked shows up drunk, the six foot six, 240 pound, red-bearded Jewish giant is forced to stand in. Ivan isn’t happy about the idea, but there’s one compensation -- the diminutive Skip Mueller, an out-of-work actor who’s been hired as one of Santa’s elves. Skip comes to Ivan’s rescue, coaching the big man through his dealings with the children.

Ivan becomes an instant celebrity, and when a permanent replacement Santa is found, the store’s customers demand Ivan’s return. Will there be a special Christmas gift this year for a certain Jewish Santa and his special elf?

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Dec 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781611528978

Terry O'Reilly

TERRY O’REILLY, the winner of hundreds of international advertising awards, is the bestselling author of The Age of Persuasion and This I Know. He is also an in-demand speaker. His highly awarded radio programs O’Reilly on Advertising, The Age of Persuasion and Under the Influence have been broadcast on CBC Radio since 2005, and his podcast has been downloaded over forty million times. Terry O’Reilly lives outside of Huntsville, Ontario.

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Santa? Seriously?

By Terry O’Reilly

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Santa? Seriously?

By Terry O’Reilly

Ivan Tykovsky stood with arms crossed over his chest, watching the crowds of shoppers as they streamed into Hinkleman’s Department Store. It was early morning, the day after Thanksgiving: the day traditionally known as Black Friday. The day was so named because a good profit on this day signaled a successful shopping season, keeping the retailer’s financial ledgers in the black.

For Ivan, it was Black Friday for quite a different reason. This was supposedly the official start of the holiday shopping season. Of course the monotonous, repetitive Christmas music had been playing in the store for the entire month of November, much to Ivan’s displeasure. It was supposed to subliminally tempt shoppers to spend, spend, spend. But to Ivan it was an irritation. It was just another reminder he was now deep into the season he hated most of all.

Hated might be too strong a word. It was not that he despised Christmas per se. It was just that it made his job even harder. Ivan was a plainclothes security guard. The