Saved By The Elf

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Back in Santa's workshop, the elves had finished with all the presents and were now making all the last minute preparations for Santa's trip. He was scheduled to leave at exactly midnight, in 11 hours, 36 minutes, and 27.5 seconds.
      The reindeer have to be fed and the sleigh taken for a test drive to make sure the hyper speed gauge is working normally. One year it blew out and Santa was stuck in Hong Kong for 20 whole minutes, which is an extremely large chunk of time if you have to travel 57, 328 miles in 6 hours.
      Meanwhile Santa is sitting in his master bedroom watching Netflix and "fattening up" for the journey. Kurt still didn't see how morbid obesity would help Santa squeezing into chimneys and flying. It would probably just give the reindeer heart attacks, but he was told it was part of his image, and didn't question it.

    It was 11:59 P.M. and Santa was being wheeled out on a mattress because he was so fat he could no longer walk. Elves gathered around him and put on his coat and hat. "Ho ho ho!" he waved at everyone as he was loaded into the sleigh.
      All of the elves were required to see Santa leave, and a huge crowd made way as he cracked his whip and the reindeer started moving. "Up, up, up, and AWAY!" he shouted when the sleigh left the ground. The emaciated elves cheered and threw their hats up in celebration. Another job well done!