HOW DID YOU FIND OUT THERE WAS NO S-A-N-T-A?

Reddit asked, “How did you find out there was no Santa Claus?” Some of the responses:
– “I was in second grade getting chicken nuggets on the lunch line and the kid next to me said, ‘I wish I could give these to Santa,’ another kid said, ‘Oh don’t do that, he’s not real! Keep lunch for yourself!’ Asked mom that night and got the horrible truth!”
– “Piecing together that Santa’s handwriting was exactly the same as my mom’s.”
– “When my parents asked me for tape on Christmas Eve.”
– “We googled ‘Is Santa real’ during first grade computer lab and the top result said “how to tell your kids that Santa is not real.”
– “My elementary school teacher told the entire class. My mom was P.O’d.”
– With our kid, my wife insisted upon getting credit for giving him all of the gifts. She was raised destitute, so I can see where she’s coming from.”
– “My sister did this to a girl on the school bus. This kid was a kindergartner, and my sister was maybe in the 4th grade. This little girl cried her heart out. I felt bad and told my grandma (who raised us), and my sister got her ass absolutely reamed.”
– “I had siblings that were 5 and 6 years younger than me so I played it up like Santa was real for a long time for them, to the point where my dad seemed concerned. He sat me down at age 13 to make sure I knew that Santa wasn’t real.”
– “When my oldest brother’s friend came over and played Santa. At first I was so happy that he finally came but then when he started chugging red wine and vomited on the floor I realized.. well, he isn’t real.”
* PHONE TOPIC: How did you find out Santa wasn’t real?