Mashable:
Airports are perhaps the least jolly of locales during the holiday season, generally filled with disgruntled people facing delays, lost luggage and other mishaps. But, thanks to WestJet, one gaggle of weary travelers was treated to a Christmas miracle that turned an airport into Santa’s workshop.
Sniff. Excuse me, I have to go. I’ve got something in my eyes.
Sniff sniff indeed. Merry Christmas Jim. Thanks for sharing yet again.
Jim? Whose this “Jim” you speak of?
Clever – I bet the guy who wanted socks and underwear was kicking himself though.
I was thinking the same thing. 🙂
Eh. Free socks and underwear is not a horrible deal. I could use some warm socks right now. 🙂
THAT was cool!
Lol, Merry Xmas Shawn!
This is how you do marketing. Fantastic.
With thanks to the YYZ Airport Authority…alright Jim, time to crank some Rush!
Great marketing idea and execution – but how about giving some money to people who REALLY need it – like typhoon victims in the Philippines, Syrian refugees and many others… (I always recommend donating to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières).
It’s good that (as far as we know) no one asked for “My kidney back” or for “Dad and Mom to get back together” or for “that Spot wasn’t hit by that car.” Or more seriously that a relative would come home from Afghanistan or Iraq.
I wonder, too, if everyone on both flights took the opportunity to talk with Santa. What about Jewish or Muslim families (or Atheists)? Don’t mean people that would object, just people that would smile and walk past and not bother because that’s just their personal gig. What about people traveling with no children that just didn’t care to do it? Or people that weren’t checking baggage and didn’t go to baggage claim?
Unless you know that WestJet doesn’t do this, your post is nonsensical.
“It’s good that (as far as we know) no one asked for “My kidney back” or for “Dad and Mom to get back together” or for “that Spot wasn’t hit by that car.” “
People ask God for that – not Santa.
We’re not talking about “people” though…we’re talking about a given specific person, who may or may not be representative of “people” collectively. All it would take is one person, perhaps a child, that has faith in Santa as a more tangible deliverer of goods, to ask in that situation.
Or for someone to be dwelling on a thing and that’s what’s on his mind, perhaps fully occupying his mind, and so when asked by someone “what can I give you?” that’s what they’ll answer.
You sir are a total idiot. :Smugness reading off the charts:
I know this video is staged because that one kid asks for an Android tablet.
Oh, the “Nirvana Fallacy”. That’s a good one.
And not one person asked for an iPad Air or iPad mini with Retina Display despite them being the top items on Black Friday?
Somebody should have given that kid an upgrade.
I’ll bet plenty of people asked for stuff that wasn’t covered by the sponsor partners. Perhaps Santa gently suggested substitutes.
Sorry, I had something in my eye as well. : P
Maybe they did but, for whatever reason, it ended up on the cutting room floor.
If you watch the “blooper reel”, you’ll see one woman asked for a new car. She obviously didn’t get it. 🙂
That makes sense.