Reindeer
Simon Mahoney wrote:
When I was very young my mother took me to see Father Christmas. Outside the department store grotto a queue was tailing back and we stood in line.
Part of the seasonal display included a mechanical reindeer which opened and shut it's mouth. It was high enough to avoid the prying fingers of the children but not the prying fingers of parents.
My mother, showing there was nothing to be scared of put her fingers in the reindeers mouth, intending to remove them just before it's teeth met. Not so...the reindeer clamped it's teeth firmly onto her hand and the mechanism ground to a halt with her fingers trapped.
This resulted in several minutes of mother tugging at the beast trying to remove her hand whilst the others in the queue trailed past, I had to stand beside her enduring this embarrassment. finally she broke free of the beast and despite laughing it off licked her wounds, she had quite extensive bruising and pain.
Many thanks!
