Also, before realizing my grandmother was Tim Burton, I had previously strolled down the Christmas isle of a local mercantile and spotted this stocking for sale:
Actually, the fact that the sentence ends in an exclamation point instead of a question mark means the stocking writer already knew the sad truth that it was indeed too late. Not because of any misdeeds of the buyer, but because a lonely porcelain doll had already beheaded Santa and presented him as a trophy to my Grandma.
Merry Christmas‽