"Holiday Spirit"

[OnyxCougar]

This thread is for you to tell us how someone made your holiday better. And I'm not talking Wal-Mart.

Me first!

I have a co-worker named Mike who is considered by most in the office to be the King Geek. Not that he's more knowledgable or techno proficient than the rest of us, we do internet tech support over the phone, so we're all pretty bright that way, but no one really talks to him. He's tall, lanky, has a minor halitosis problem, and wears cowboy boots. He is, by all accounts, a social misfit.

He was living with the lady that married me and my husband, but she did him much wrong, and he's back to living with his parents in a town about 45 minutes from work. We talk at work over IM and as he walks by my desk. He's 28, never been married, and has some sub/dom kinks. He's looking for a girlfriend in NC with similar kinks. I'm trying to give him common sense suggestions, but the bottom line is that he's in small town southern bible belt country and finding a girl with sub/dom kinks is going to be a stretch.

Because I'm one of the few that actually talk to him, a rumor has been started that we're sleeping together. I find this funny. If people had the slightest clue how completely in love I am with my husband, the thought of me sleeping with anyone else would be as ludicrous to them as it is me. I told Mike we were sleeping together and asked if I was good. He said I was the best he ever had and he's jealous of my husband. It became a big, not-so-inside joke between us. I told my husband about it and he laughed too. So everyone involved knows that we're supposedly having sex now. Mike and I are close enough that we can joke like that, but yet not close enough that I have his phone number or anything.

Anyway, the office is putting together the Secret Santa thing, and Mike and I were discussing the limit set, and I mentioned how things are so tight this year that I'm worried about getting the kids gifts this year, let alone Secret Santa gifts.

He gave me a Christmas Card as he walked past my desk on the way out. Inside was an envolope that read, "For the kids, from Santa." I opened it, and he had tucked $60 in! It was completely unexpected, and of course, undeserved, and that made it all the more sweet and generous.

I made a card and put it on his desk, and the guy that sits next to him told me tonight was his last day for two weeks...he's on vacation til after Christmas....