Our cookie cutters were missing. Nobody seemed to know where they went (when stuff disappears, of course nobody touched it). So we made an emergency trip to Macy's (pretty much the only place still open). Their housewares department would have 'em.

Nope. We walked through all the isles several times and the closest we got was some kinda electric doodad that appears to shoot the cookies out one end...like playdough, only weirder.

So we ask the kid (maybe nineteen years old) at the housewares counter if he has them anywhere.

The response was right out of Beavis & Butthead: "Uhhhhh (...long pause...) you mean the electric thing?".

What? Do kids not know about how Christmas Cookies are made? They only come out of a tin, or something?

Better luck next year.

Merry Christmas everybody.

(First posted on Mark Is Cranky)