Found this awesome liquor store in San Francisco. I thought I'd see Joey Gladstone working for sure, but alas I had no such luck.
not anti-mothers day, but...
10 years ago
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Dave Coulier was not behind the counter
Found this awesome liquor store in San Francisco. I thought I'd see Joey Gladstone working for sure, but alas I had no such luck.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
I've got some sinnin' to do!
I had an interesting experience a few weeks ago following a church softball game. I play on said softball team. I am not a member of the church and I do not go to the church. I just play on their softball team. Well, every week after we finish playing, both teams gather together for a prayer session.
Normally I just stand toward the back respectfully silent. The usual prayer session starts by asking for prayer requests. These requests most often come from people with sick family members and things like that, completely understandable requests. A few weeks ago when the call for requests was made nobody was speaking up. Eventually, a guy started to speak. It was his first week playing for us. Apparently he had just joined the church recently. Anyway, he requested that we pray for his sin of lust. Now because no one had really spoken up about requests I thought this new guy might be just trying to lighten the mood. So what do I do? I start clapping my hands and saying things like, "who doesn't need help with sins of lust." That was followed by a hearty laugh from me. I thought it was pretty funny, but I noticed a lack of laughter from the rest of the group. This caused me to look around the group where I noticed that many people were simply staring at me with a blank look on their face. No big deal I thought, it was funny to me but I guess lust jokes don't go over well with the church crowd. Finally, the new guy spoke up again and clarified by saying that he was serious and that he had an addiction to pornography and masturbation. This only made things more awkward. For the duration of the prayers I just kept my head down and left quickly upon the completion of the prayers.
Personally, I'm not sure that guy has a problem unless he's masturbating so much that he can't hold down a job. At any rate this was an excellent example of me sticking my foot in my mouth. I will maintain that my joke was funny and that it is off-putting for the new guy to reveal that much personal information to people that he hardly knew.
Questions, comments, complaints?
Quote of the post: "Mother is the word for God on the lips and hearts of children."
Normally I just stand toward the back respectfully silent. The usual prayer session starts by asking for prayer requests. These requests most often come from people with sick family members and things like that, completely understandable requests. A few weeks ago when the call for requests was made nobody was speaking up. Eventually, a guy started to speak. It was his first week playing for us. Apparently he had just joined the church recently. Anyway, he requested that we pray for his sin of lust. Now because no one had really spoken up about requests I thought this new guy might be just trying to lighten the mood. So what do I do? I start clapping my hands and saying things like, "who doesn't need help with sins of lust." That was followed by a hearty laugh from me. I thought it was pretty funny, but I noticed a lack of laughter from the rest of the group. This caused me to look around the group where I noticed that many people were simply staring at me with a blank look on their face. No big deal I thought, it was funny to me but I guess lust jokes don't go over well with the church crowd. Finally, the new guy spoke up again and clarified by saying that he was serious and that he had an addiction to pornography and masturbation. This only made things more awkward. For the duration of the prayers I just kept my head down and left quickly upon the completion of the prayers.
Personally, I'm not sure that guy has a problem unless he's masturbating so much that he can't hold down a job. At any rate this was an excellent example of me sticking my foot in my mouth. I will maintain that my joke was funny and that it is off-putting for the new guy to reveal that much personal information to people that he hardly knew.
Questions, comments, complaints?
Quote of the post: "Mother is the word for God on the lips and hearts of children."
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