"...And if you're bad, you get coal in your stocking!"
"Coal? To make fires with?"
"No! I mean, well, yeah, I suppose, but..."
"Cool!"
"Wait...Santa only brings that...no-burning...kind of coal!"
"Hey, Toby! Let's be bad!"
Coal was a punishment because it was an ordinary, useful thing you saw every single day, not a special present. The modern equivalent would probably be socks and underwear.
Coal was a punishment because it was an ordinary, useful thing you saw every single day, not a special present. The modern equivalent would probably be socks and underwear.