The Story of Carlson the Christmas Angel

What I've Learned So Far...

The Story of Carlson the Christmas Angel

Originally published December 24, 2007

Carlson was not a particularly happy Angel. You see, he wasn’t allowed to live in Heaven. He was a Guardian Angel, which meant that he had to hang around on Earth, taking care of his Client, Bob.

Now, Guardian Angel duty was about the most difficult job an Angel could have, even under the best of circumstances. Angels couldn’t change what their Clients said or did; they could only try to protect them from accidents. Or, more commonly, from the consequences of their actions.

Some Clients were really good people, always risking their lives to help others, and this sort of thing could keep a Guardian Angel pretty busy. Other Clients were hopelessly slow-witted or accident prone, and they needed a Guardian Angel around constantly just to keep them from getting their scarves caught in the wood chipper.

Carlson was not sure why he had been assigned to Bob, who wasn’t particularly accident prone, and who certainly wasn’t what anybody would ever call a good person. Bob liked to steal books from the public library. He liked to harass waitresses without mercy, then leave a one-cent tip. And if you ever gave Bob a Christmas gift, you were likely to get it back the next year, slightly used and usually re-wrapped in the same paper.

 

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- mike

Mike Ball

Author of What I've Learned So Far...
Winner of the 2003 Erma Bombeck Award

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