Think back to holidays when you were a kid. If you grew up celebrating Christmas, how did you feel about Santa? Was he this cool guy who showed up once a year with presents, or did you end up crying at the mall when your aunties tried to get you to sit on his lap for a photo?
There's more than one right answer, of course. Maybe one year you're cool, and the next year you're not on speaking terms. It happens.
Would your point of view have changed if Santa pulled up to greet you on a personal watercraft, though? That's what I'm wondering, seeing him zoom up to greet the eager families waiting on the shore in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Growing up in Chicago, that would have made zero sense. In the video we see here, it's about 27 degrees Celsius (or 80-ish degrees Fahrenheit), so a PWC is a no-brainer. But as an example, while I'm writing this, it's about 1.1 degrees Celsius or about 34-ish degrees Fahrenheit. You and me, we're not the same.
Santa on a sleigh or a snowmobile makes sense in Chicago, but Santa on a PWC makes so much more sense in Rio. In both cases, though, it's about the merry old guy bringing joy and good cheer to the kids, right? Right.
