what age were you when people ruined your x-mas by telling you santa wasnt real?

woosaysdan

i was about 10 when i was told that the big man didnt really exist thankfully for me i had a few little brothers and sisters who did still believe \o/ so i was told to play along as well

quarryman

heh? santa lives in the north pole with Mary.

everyone knows that.

KdjaCL

28 and about 5 minutes ago!

YOU BASTARD!!!!!!!!!!


kdjac

steveland?

what age were you when people ruined your x-mas by telling you santa wasnt real?

Told what now????!?

aidan_walsh

Your parents are big fat poopy headed liars!

woosaysdan

thanks doodle sketch

PH01

What do you mean "Santa wasn't real"? He is real, isn't he?!

Oh, this day is just getting worse. First Bush get re-elected and now you're saying Santa isn't REAL? :eek:

bender

ofcourse he is real... he brought all those pressies for me...

cajun_tiger

no now you mean the one in the supermarkets right cause i know the big man is real .... now you have me doubting myself... i'm gonna cry....
reasurence please

quarryman

did you ever notice how fast he is aswell? last year he was in Liffey Valley. Then when i was passing Tesco on the way home i saw him in there. real nippy guy.

Adam

its ok cajun, reassurance comin at ya, call it sympathy....

Tusky

Hmmm Do you think there might be some 8 year old boards.ie readers ? hope not.

cajun_tiger

i remember seeing him at esker church then he was on the telly in england at a hospital i'm guessing it wasnt live news broadcast

cajun_tiger

i'm 8 years old and .......(just counting the months hang on )

cajun_tiger

............and 166 months old (",)

NotMe

I could never be bothered waiting for Santa. Every year me and my brother used to sneak into our parents room and open our presents a couple of weeks before Christmas... heh ... we'd have a good look at them and then wrap them up again and act surprised on Christmas morning.

cajun_tiger

why would your parents mind your presants for santa????/

maybe thats how he gets around so fast he comes and drops off the presants and gets your parents to mind them..... but then who eats the carrot and the mince pie and who drinks the glass of milk??

Adam

you rebel! we never had the balls to open them, jus tore corners to get a tantalising peek at the good stuff within.... only made the anticipation worse when we couldnt work it out though

HashSlinging

ffs, heartless basT$£"S

enterprise

Was about 8. I was very sick over christmas eve and I caught the parents putting the presents under the tree about midnight or so. They had some explaining to do - but they let me play with the presents!

therecklessone

I was 7 and I heard my sister and my aul one discussing whether to wrap my presents or not. I ran out shouting "hah, I knew there was no Santa!".

They tried to bluff their way out of it, but I knew. Oh yes, I knew...

woosaysdan

hee hee hee

cajun_tiger

hahahaha i like them

Private Joker

I was about ten when i found out, which really ruined my christmas. My sister and i were having a fight ( as ya do ) and she let it splurt. Didn't tell my parents though, you seem to get better presents that way.

But that year in school the teacher asked me what i was getting off santa and i said in front of a full class that there was no such thing.

I was promptly marched out of class with the sound of 30 whimpering kids behind me. I don't think anyone spoke to me for months

woosaysdan

LOL the truth hurts!!!

Blisterman

A class of ten year olds still all believed in santa? That's strange.

Private Joker

Blisterman wrote:

A class of ten year olds still all believed in santa? That's strange.

well maybe they were younger, gettin old and the memory is fadin a bit

cajun_tiger

i don't get this still believe stuff, jeany mack of corses he's real,

rainbow kirby

I was about 10. Found out when I wanted rollerblades, and my mum had to take me shopping to get the right size...

Mossy Monk

cant remember how old i was when i was told but it would have been pretty young

did it ruin all my christmasses, no

the rip off prices do that for me

Pet

I was about 7 or 8, my sister would try every year to convince me, and that year she brought me out to the car and showed me the presents in the boot.

What a ****ing bitch, actually. I owe her a punch for that.

jesus_thats_gre

I remember figuring out myself and telling all my friends. Their parents were not happy at all at all...

My father was the manager of a toy shop, it was easy to figure out

Sherifu

I was about 10.
It was at Christmas Eve mass of all places.
Someone in my class told me that someone else was still believing.
Christmas ruined. :rolleyes:

mad m

Stayed wide awake one christmas eve,then heard door creak closed eyes but not tightly and seen my mam sort of nearly break her neck trying to slide present onto end of my bed.It was the way we did it in my grandparents house,never had a tree.So presents at end of bed hehe....Sort of knew there was no Santa after that... Oh was 6 or 7 i think...but what a pressie.Evil Kanevil and his bike,you had to wind this thing up and when it got to a speed it shot off..Yay!!

embee

I was 9 or ten, but had to go along with it for a few more years because my sister (who is two years younger) believed in it still. That said, my brother and I used to spend entire DAYS telling her Santy wasn't real, but she held on to her belief for so long. Worked well for us though, because we got lots of presents regardless.

rmulryan

rmulryan wrote:

I was about 10.
It was at Christmas Eve mass of all places.
Someone in my class told me that someone else was still believing.
Christmas ruined. :rolleyes:

Yeah some little scumbag at school ran in excitedly one day to tell us all. It was the highpoint of his year....

clearz

I was 10 and my teacher told the class honostly.

DArcy

When I was 6 I asked Santa to write me a letter & to leave it for me when he was delivering my presents on Christmas eve.

Obligingly, he left a piece of cardboard that had something written on it about me being a great wee girl, blah de blah. I had been expecting a fantastic typed letter on headed paper, just like all the other children had been getting (creative parents obviously!).

A few weeks after Christmas I asked my mother how to spell the word "christmas". She wrote it down for me, & I matched the handwriting with the letter that Santa had left. Self-inflicted pain.

bender

DArcy wrote:

A few weeks after Christmas I asked my mother how to spell the word "christmas". She wrote it down for me, & I matched the handwriting with the letter that Santa had left. Self-inflicted pain.

any chance yu are working for the "Gardai" now?? just wondering

Sherifu

rmulryan wrote:

I was about 10.
It was at Christmas Eve mass of all places.
Someone in my class told me that someone else was still believing.
Christmas ruined. :rolleyes:

To finish the story, I still didn't want to believe what i was hearing.
To be definite i searched for clues. I found a receipt in the attic from smiths toystores. Couldn't really ignore that clue.

Game over, ball bust. :eek:

Giblet

My parents never told me about Santa, YOU RUINED WHAT COULD OF BEEN A MAGICAL CHILDHOOD "DAD!"

climaxer

I was around 8 when I got doubts and gradually stopped believing. Still got presents until I left home at 19. My poor Mam bless her still left a few gifts under the tree for me on xmas morning.

My daughter stopped believing when she was 8 or 9 but didn't tell me. She said she just played along with me. She said she first got suspicious when she saw "Stocking Fillers" in Argos. Surely Santa didn't shop in Argos is what she said to me!

gogo

I think i was about eleven, walkmans had just come out and we all got one, but mine wasn't working, my uncle jumped in to tell me that it was working last night!!
I don't think I would have twigged from that , but the kick my mother gave him had me very anxious.
My blunt uncle then said to my mother "don't tell me she believes in santa"

All hope gone.
It runined that christmas for me, I felt so let down.

We still get santa presents, we get them early christmas eve, about seven/eight, then we get family presents on christmas morning. Its only cause my mother loves to shop and feels justified if she has a reason.(Altho i think its harder justifing santa presents for her youngest who is 22).

Pet

Yeah some little scumbag at school ran in excitedly one day to tell us all. It was the highpoint of his year....

I hope you beat the absolute **** out of him for that.

Naos

Our teacher told us honestly - Clearz

eh, what an absolute sp* for that !!! very evil..

Was about 8 or 9 i'd say, a mate mentioned it to me, and his mam promptly gave him a look, and said shush etc. Then i said, "its okay i already knew". very shortly after, got up walked out of the house. Can still remember it now actually, things seemed different. was a sad sad day. However have a lil bro so its been cool last 8 years

CathyMoran

I first had an inkling when I was 2 - I remember the shop attendants looking at me and saying isn't she cute and then my dad carrying this parcel. I didn't know for certain until I was 4 when a present came with a label saying batteries not included but the batteries were...

Ciaran500

I can't remember what age I was but I was told sometime in July one year?




I still have no idea why I was told in July

Pet

Ciaran500 wrote:

I can't remember what age I was but I was told sometime in July one year?




I still have no idea why I was told in July

Perhaps because, in the middle of summer, Christmas would be the last thing on your mind? And hence you'd be less upset? Sounds like some decent forethought to me.

Aava

I became supicious right after one christmas when I was about 10. One of the items in my stocking was a set of juggling balls. The next day my mum gave the exact same gift to one of my cousins and I copped on. I asked her afterwards was it her that filled my stocking and she didn't deny it. I wasn't upset or anything, I found it quite amusing that I believed it. :rolleyes:

orangerooster

Found out when I was around ten or so-parents just told me straight up-I did have my suspicions up till then of course such as santa "making presents" when you could buy them in a toyshop in the middle of summer with the companies label on them-didnt really ruin my christmas.

BolBill

CathyMoran wrote:

I first had an inkling when I was 2 - I remember the shop attendants looking at me and saying isn't she cute and then my dad carrying this parcel. I didn't know for certain until I was 4 when a present came with a label saying batteries not included but the batteries were...

and you were a qualified doctor by 6 I'd imagine as well !!!!