Ho ho ho, where's my dough?

St. Nick doesn't sound too jolly in this story, but I can't say I blame him.

One dry cleaner now knows how to get on Santa's naughty list: lose his suit.

After Christmas last year, Max Weisberg took his red velvet suit to Royal Cleaners, which accidentally gave it to someone else. The family-owned business acknowledged the mixup and offered to pay him half the value of the nearly $400 suit, said Jean Hwang, who said she's the owner's sister.

Now, if you went to pick up your clothes at the dry cleaner and found, when you got home, that they'd given you a Santa suit, wouldn't you take it back? Maybe not if you were a fat guy looking to make some extra cash around Christmas, but otherwise, I don't really see why anybody would keep it.

Weisberg, 54, a civilian employee of the Navy, took the business to small claims court and won a $396.50 judgment to cover the suit and court costs.

But he had to collect the money himself. So Weisberg decided to do it with flair. His wife's public-relations firm notified the media that he would drop by the shop.

Donning a new red velvet suit with soft white trim and shiny black boots, a jolly Weisberg burst into the dry cleaners Monday, television cameras rolling.

"Merry Christmas! Have you been a good girl?" he asked a smiling Hwang. She promised to put the check in the mail to Weisberg the next day.

That's probably a good idea. After all, you don't want a guy like that coming down your chimney, all angry at you.