Overheard at Table 3: Two Technicians Talking

One Technician: So what is your suggestion - that we all quit?

Second Technician: I'm not saying that.  I'm just saying don't let them make you waste your time and effort on something that's never gonna work out.

Overheard at Table 1: The Man She Married

Today my wife told me that she wanted back the man that she had married.  She meant the man I was when we got married.  That man, she said, was funny and kind and caring and sweet and was always very tender and never got angry and was always mellow and completely in control of everything.

I thought about that man.  My wife is right.  He was a great guy.   Late 20s, still had all his hair, was relatively in shape (no middle aged spread, no arthritis, no back problems).   That guy hadn't yet lost his parents, his grandparents, his wife's parents.

That guy still hadn't gone through raising three kids, one of whom stopped speaking to him 15 years ago.   He hadn't moved states, been though downsizing and layoffs, been fired, been told he was unqualified for a position he'd been working for seven years.  He hadn't faced major emergency room visits for his wife who nearly died from a rupturing gall bladder.  He hadn't yet had to drive four hours to rescue his daughter from a violent roommate.  

That guy hadn't yet had to watch his savings dwindle to repair his house that the insurance wouldn't cover, never had cars die, been stranded, helpless, apart from his kids in hurricanes, hadn't yet reached his fifties and still wondering if he will ever have enough money to retire.

So my first thought after wondering about that great, wonderful, guy, was "That guy didn't fucking survive three decades of this thing called LIFE!"  

But that would have been mean.   So, I just told my wife, "He's still here.  He's still me.  I'll do better."

And she said, "You've been saying that for over 25 years."

Overheard at Table 3: Marriage in Your Fifties

My wife last night, from the other room, out of the blue, just said, "My breasts hurt"

I said, "I'll rub them for you."

She said, "No thank you."

And I thought, 'Well, that about sums up your Fifties!'

Overheard at Booth 1: Live Free by Reading Galatians

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Galatians 1:1-9

First of the 13 letters written by the Apostle Paul

Laundromat Preacher - this was the most fun, because people couldn't just walk away and leave their laundry.  He said it was especially fun when they got someone who had just put the quarters in and HA!  they're there for another 45 minutes!

Spring Break Preacher - When asking the question, "If you died today do you know where you would go?" and the partyer would say, "Give me 5 bucks so I can get another drink and I'll answer your question"

Isaiah 64:6 - we are all unclean rags.

    NOTE: read the verse - could be made into a song.

Acts Ch 13:38-39 is Paul AT Galatia

2 Peter 3:15-16 - Peter writes that people twist the scriptures (this goes along with what we are studying in Revelation in our Bible Study Group)  ... this passage also shows Peter elevating Paul's epistles to the lvel of Old Testament Scripture

Galatians 1:3-5 should be memorized as a creed.  Call it the "Galatian Creed"

Overheard at Table 3: Article about Earworms

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/10/well/mind/songs-earworm-causes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KE4.Dtr4.UATJGbgEmV4C&smid=url-share&ck_subscriber_id=2454671364&utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Japan%20gears%20up%20for%20self-driving%20trains%20-%2015007532

Overheard at Table 4: Signing the Praise Team

At Church, the Praise Team has a sign language translator at one side of the stage, signing the lyrics of each song as the band plays.  

In between the second and third song, the translator reached down and took a drink from a water bottle.

I said to my wife, "Signing must be thirsty work!"

My wife ... was not amused.

Overheard at Booth 4: A Mossy Tree

"I really don't believe men when they say they want a sexy woman, or a woman who is hot.  I mean, men aren't really that discerning - men will stick their dicks into a hole in a TREE, for fugssake!"

"Well ... not if the hole is all dried dead wood.  It's gonna have to be at least a little mossy."

"EW!  You are completely disgusting!"