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

jesus_thats_gre · 04-11-2004 02:11AM

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 · 04-11-2004 02:15AM

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 · 04-11-2004 02:23AM

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 · 04-11-2004 02:24AM

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.

04-11-2004 02:51AM

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 · 04-11-2004 02:59AM

I was 10 and my teacher told the class honostly.

DArcy · 04-11-2004 10:38AM

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 · 04-11-2004 10:42AM

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 · 04-11-2004 10:49AM

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 · 04-11-2004 10:52AM

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

climaxer · 04-11-2004 12:00PM

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 · 04-11-2004 02:40PM

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 · 04-11-2004 03:04PM

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 · 04-11-2004 06:43PM

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 · 05-11-2004 12:08AM

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 · 05-11-2004 12:32AM

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 · 05-11-2004 01:01AM

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 · 05-11-2004 03:53AM

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 · 05-11-2004 10:52AM

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 · 05-11-2004 01:12PM

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 !!!!

Zombienosh · 05-11-2004 01:14PM

now now

we all know santa is extinct along with leprechauns
and unicorns and such

KlodaX · 05-11-2004 02:07PM

7 or 8 ... my friend said she saw her mum buying a game that her brother had asked santa for ... I wasn't sure so I went home and asked my mum. She said right out no he doesnt exist. I started joking that she would look funny in the big red costume ... I remember laughing trying to pretend I didn't mind. I was so disapointed, tried so hard not to cry. My friend's mum convinced her that the present was from her and not santa ... my friend went on to believe in santa for another 3 years. Bit*h.

Aava · 05-11-2004 06:25PM

Now that I remember it, I remember telling my cousin that Santa didn't exist.

But the funny thing is, she was given a computer for Christmas and she was so convinced that her parents could never afford something like that so she went on believing in him. :rolleyes:

Cactus Col · 05-11-2004 06:32PM

Brother told me, but, the fact that Santa doesn't exist never really bothered me, afterall I still got the presents.

Shrimp · 05-11-2004 06:34PM

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

What!?!? Sanat's not real!!

:(:(

Aava · 05-11-2004 07:27PM

O...K... we've had just about enough "I never knew Santa wasn't real" jokes for one thread. :rolleyes:

azezil · 05-11-2004 07:59PM

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woosaysdan · 05-11-2004 08:49PM

LOL love that pic az

Aava · 06-11-2004 02:29AM

Rofl, great pic!

cajun_tiger · 09-11-2004 02:12PM

i cried at that your so mean

(never ever enough i didnt know he wasnt real jokes)

i was 7 and refused to believe the lying little toe rag so i poured paint in her school bag. every year she tried to convince the whole class and every year some " strange " would happen to the lanky ballerina spa

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

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