Coca-Cola Santa tells girl she’s on the naughty list, A CALDERWOOD youngster’s trip to visit the Coca-Cola Christmas truck ended in tears last week when Santa told her she was on the naughty list.
Four-year-old Brooke Rarity was bubbling with excitement when her mum told her she would be visiting the iconic truck, which was stationed at the Morrisons store in Lindsayfield last Monday.
But the Halfmerke Community Nursery pupil was left traumatised when Santa implied she would be getting a lump of coal in her stocking.
And Brooke’s mum Kellie has been trying to convince her Santa will still deliver her presents this Christmas.
A furious Kellie told the News: “Santa asked me ‘What's your little ones name?’ and when I told him, he said ‘I recognise your face – are you Brooke?’
“She beamed an instant yes, but his comeback to her was ‘Oh, I hear you're on the naughty list this year!’
“I just looked at the guy and said ‘oh my God’ and then we left.

“She was a bit tearful and continued to check with me throughout the day that Santa would still be coming.”
Having watched the iconic Christmas adverts with the bright lights and the whisper of ‘Holidays are Coming’, Brooke’s experience was far from magical.
Kellie added: “It was absolutely ridiculous. It’s built up to be this great experience of seeing the truck you see in the adverts with the bright lights on it, but it was just a parked-up truck and they wouldn’t even put the lights on.
“It was a bit daft having it there between 9am and 3pm as well because most children are at school.
“My eight-year-old son Euan and his 12-year-old brother Matthew would have loved to see it but they couldn’t.
“Some lights on, maybe a bit of music and a balloon would have brought a bit more Christmas cheer rather than the bah-humbug staff who were rolling up tobacco when we arrived.”
The News received a number of complaints from disappointed locals but others had a more enjoyable experience.
Angela Richardson said: “I took my son up at lunchtime. It would have looked better at night but it was still good to see it.
“We managed to get quite a few photos, despite the rain, and the guys giving away the cans of coke were friendly too.
“They wished us Merry Christmas for when it comes.”
A spokesman from Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd apologised that some were disappointed by the Coca-Cola truck’s visit to Lindsayfield.
“The truck tour is an experience that is designed to be enjoyed by families together during the Christmas season. In order to enable as many people to enjoy the truck as possible, it is making stops during the day and evenings throughout the week and weekends across the country.
“During the visit to Lindsayfield, the truck experienced an unforeseen problem with its generator.
“An engineer was called to mend this problem as soon as possible, but we are aware that for two hours of the stop, the truck’s decorative lighting was not working.”