Tommy's show notes - 12/18
HO, HO,... Aw, heck!
Auntie Anne's Pretzels conducted a survey last year to understand just how much abuse shopping mall Santas put up with every holiday season. Their findings:
--34 percent of mall Santas have been "wet" on by a child
--If Santa could "pimp his sleigh," 44% would add a GPS for Mrs. Claus
--More than 60% are sneezed or coughed on up to 10 times each day
--74% have up to 10 children cry while on their lap each day
--Nearly 90% of mall Santas have their beard pulled each day to see if it's real
--Nearly half of mall Santas' black boots are between a size 10 to 11 and a half, and more than 50 percent of Santas have children step on their boots 1 to 10 times a day
--45% of Santas see camera "flash" spots more than 25 times a day
--Nearly 50% have up to 10 children try to take their glasses off each day
--Nearly 30% of mall Santas have more than 100 children sit on their lap every day
--If moms and dads think requests from their little ones are over-the-top, here's a sampling of the far out items mall Santas are asked for --exotic pets (giraffes, pigs, elephants and penguins to name a few), cookbooks for Mom because she can't cook very well, a new sibling because kids don't care for the one they have or to have their little brother taken care of --if you know what we mean!
--While most people look forward to family vacations or watching football games after Christmas, 52% of Santas look forward to taking a nice, long nap!
Cell phones come, land lines go...
New federal figures show that the number of homes without land lines has grown to 18 percent, up from seven percent just three years ago.
Another 13 percent have land lines but say they use cell phones almost exclusively.
The trend is prevalent --as you might expect-- with young adults, especially young adults who rent instead of own a home.
Guess who worries about this? Pollsters, who fear that telephone surveys may become biased. To some that's an advantage --with a cell phone you can avoid solicitors. But the down side is that you can be found anywhere. Before, when we made a phone call, we always called a place; now, we call a person no matter where they are.
Like many other things, the land line phone may go the way of TV rabbit ears and transistor radios. In 15-20 years, it's likely instead of four in five having a land line, four in five will be wireless.
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