Toddler drops the F-bomb when he hears Santa will let himself into the house
Let's agree on something. If you step back from the concept of Santa, it's kind of scary.
You go to sleep, and a strange man lets himself into your house, stomps around, eats some cake, and leaves a bunch of unknown packages on your floor.
This would not fly at say, an airport.
But because it's Christmas, we all suspend the regular social order around things like, er, trespassing, and er, unidentified and possibly dangerous parcels, and go with it.
Everyone except this toddler.
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"Is Santa going to come into my house?" Leo, a very astute young man from the UK, asks his mother.
"Yeah, he's going to come into your house," 27-year-old Gemma Maxey replies.
No sugar-coating of the facts here.
Two-year-old Leo looks out at her from under his brows, extremely concerned. And after a pause, expresses his doubts.
"What the f--k," he announces.
"You can't do that!"
Correct, Leo. Generally, walking into a stranger's house is frowned upon.
"That's naughty!" he protests when his mum tells him off for "the silly word".
"Santa's not going to come to my house!"
"Santa's definitely not going to come to your house now!" Gemma says.
But Leo, it has to be said, looks supremely unconcerned about this.
Yes, he might have said a bad word – but he's also prevented a potential break-and-enter.
Someone has to pay the price of justice.
