"Usually, Christmas punishments never go any further than not receiving a reward that just about everybody gets. Lumps of coal and so forth." He tosses the baseball straight up, and catches it in his other hand.

"You could've gotten the guy with the birch whips and the basket. That's a Christmas thing, right?" Toss back to his main hand.

"I've never heard of something like this happening. I can't imagine how they came up with it, you're right."