Friday Fiction: by Manamana

Mike Delivers Christmas

It was 1 AM on the day before Christmas. Mike the mailman was delayed on his regular run from Cleveland, Ohio to Chambersburg, Pa., and if Mike was only hauling ordinary freight it might be a different story. Mike was worried that he would be late getting this load of mail delivered on time. He knew that in order for the mail, which contained many Christmas presents for Chambersburg families, to get delivered before Christmas he would have to be there before 6AM.

Things were not looking good as there was already a delay in getting his truck loaded, leaving him only enough time to get there without any further delays.

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As Mike was finally getting into his loaded big rig, a light snow began to fall. No worries, as long as the turnpike weather was good he would be on time. Mike was not so lucky. As he crossed over the Ohio state line into Pennsylvania the snow was really starting to get heavy. Mike's truck had good tires and a heavy load to help with the traction so he still wasn't too worried.

A few hours later Mike was going through Bedford and the snow was getting heavier and heavier. Soon it was snowing so hard that he could barely see the road and he had to reduce his speed. The more miles he went the slower he had to go so that he could still see to stay on the road. Mike was down to 20MPH and he knew that if by some miracle things didn't get better, the Christmas presents were not going to get delivered in time for Christmas.

Straining his eyes to see he noticed a dull red light up ahead. What in the world? Why, it was Santa with Rudolph leading the team of reindeer. Mike pulled up along side of Santa and told him what was going on. Santa told Mike not to worry, just follow him into Chambersburg.

Following Santa all the way, they finally made it into the west side of town and the snow was letting up. Mike looked down to check his time and when he looked up, Santa was gone. Had Santa really been there? Or were Mike's eyes playing tricks on him from straining to see thru the snow?

Mike pulled into the dock at Chambersburg and all the carriers were there to help unload into their LLVs. The Christmas mail was delivered on time! It was a Christmas miracle!

Thank you Manamana for this fun story for Christmas in July! 💓💚