Strange, but true, holiday facts

Elves, normally very mellow creatures, are a bit frazzled this time of year. Did you know that the tradition of giving coal & sticks in stockings of bad boys and girls originated because an elf was in hyper-ass covering mode? Twue. Like I said, at this time of the year, elves are pretty stressed. One elf (whose name has been lost to posterity or purposely kept hidden, you decide) who was unusually stressed out due to an influx of requests for toy trains when HE had geared up his department for toy trucks, decided that as a means to keep inventory from running out, he would arbitrarily declared any boys "bad" who asked for trains instead of trucks and would deliver coal and sticks instead. Now if the boys were asking for trucks, then they were "good" and got not one, but usually two or more trucks so that "the big guy" wouldn't catch on that he had overdid it on the trucks and not anticipated "trains". The elf in charge of dolls was coerced into going along with this scheme (something to do with pictures of him and the reindeer, but that's another story), but since he had plenty of dolls in stock, only half-heartedly delivered some coal and sticks to a few girls (mostly ones caught playing with trucks or asking for trains). This, by the way, was the beginning of the fairy tale that girls are nicer than boys.