By now, some of you have already figured out that our Blinkie is the Blinkie from Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, not the Blinkie from The Scarecrow of Oz.
If you haven't figured it out yet, you know now.
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The local big-box store has decided not to let Hallowe'en get in the way of Christmas and set up the twelve-foot animatronic skeleton right next to the twelve-foot inflatable Santa. The inflatable Santa's wobbling keeps setting off the animatronic skeleton's motion activated flail-and-scream routine, which in turn sets off the inflatable Santa's motion sensor and makes it play "Jingle Bells".
I was watching some kindergartners play in the snow. Then a guy with a lumpy trash bag slung over his back walked up to the children to dump out the trash bag like a deranged Santa Claus. Apparently it was filled with toys, and as the children screamed in joy, the man grinned at me with red eyes before leaving me with unanswered questions.