20 Things I Learned From Being A Shopping Centre Santa.

1. It's more responsibility than you can imagine.
   
2. There is nothing more joy filling than seeing a child's face break into a large smile upon seeing/hearing the red suited figure.
   
3. It so much more than you in the suit. You are now Santa. Remember that at all times.
   
4. They will pull the beard. By they I mean babies.
   
5. The beard pulls will hurt. More than you expect.
   
6. Something as simple as wishing a passer-by "Merry Christmas" followed by a booming "Ho ho ho" will do more than you expect for them.
   
7. Mothers will hold babies seemingly by the end of their pinky.
   
8. They will give you the baby & you can't find the hand holds.
   
9. Be ready for the curve balls. They usually come from the parents.
   
10. All Santas are the same person. No matter what the difference in height.
    
11. Strangely annoying teenagers don't want to come and sit on Santa's knee. Bizarre.
    
12. Father Christmas? Who is he?
    
13. The sack must be carried on the shoulder at all times.
    
14. The reindeer get skittish inside, that's why they stay on the roof of the shopping centre.
    
15. You can't afford to lag, if you do that's when you will shatter a child's dreams.
    
16. Smile & boom out the "Ho ho ho"s.
    
17. Remember that whatever happens, you have an end time.
    
18. People will hit on your elves. Especially if they are young female elves.
    
19. Landscape not portrait your pillow.
    
20. It's highly rewarding & I would recommend it to anyone.