Dear Santa Claus,

For Christmas this year I won’t be asking you as I did last year for everything you’ve got! (By the way since I’m on the subject I want to tell you that last year you were pretty damned stingy.) This year I only ask you one thing: I want to see the 4Ygrecs perform again. I already assisted in one of their shows and it was really cool. But my parents don’t want to let me go again. They say: “it had a detrimental influence on me!” I don’t get what they mean, but when they say that they get so serious I can tell it’s no laughing matter. Santa Claus, do you think it’s because of the two dishes I broke the other day when I was doing what I saw the 4Ygrecs do in their performance of “Dinner’s Ready!” They said they don’t have peaceful mealtimes anymore because of the noise which by the way doesn’t bother me … OK it’s true that mom scolded me when she came home and found that the living room curtains had fallen on the vase that grandmom had given her. But come on, was it my fault the curtains fell when I needed the curtain rods in order to do the piece that I saw the quartet do with their big stick. It’s also true that dad wasn’t very happy when I told him that I broke my violin in half. But a violin’s pretty delicate. I had hardly tapped on it the way I saw the 4Ygrecs do and all of sudden CRACK, it broke. And yes it’s true that mom had a funny look in her eyes when she saw that I’d put flour all over the living room to see if I could get it real clean using the technique the 4Ygrecs did in the last number in their show. But frankly, dear Santa Claus, do you find it normal that just because of only these few trifles I be forbidden to go to the next 4Ygrecs concert ?

Please help me Santa

Bobby