A MasterCard commercial?
March 23rd, 2006How’s this for a MasterCard commercial:
Tickets to a Cardinals-Dodgers spring training game at Dodgertown: $19
Dinner at Applebee’s after the game with two friends: $14
Getting cussed out by a drunk woman sitting in the booth behind you as you’re trying to engage in a private conversation with two friends: Priceless
Seriously, Brett, David and I are sitting in our booth taking about church-related matters, theological issues, baseball, etc., when all of a sudden this crazed woman sitting behind us starts chewing us out. She tells us that people like us are the reason that she left the church, because all we want to do is sit around and talk about things, and we’re so occupied with activities like baseball when we should be out talking to people about Jesus (so, I’m assuming that she thinks all Christians should starve to death because they should never take the time to eat?). All the while, she’s cussing like a sailor. She tells us we should wait until she leaves for us to talk about this stuff, and said a bunch of things I don’t remember. Maybe Brett or David can fill in some more of the details.
This went on for like five minutes, and we’re all just sitting at the table looking at each other, flabbergasted. When she finally finished, I just looked at David and Brett and said, “So, as I was saying, …” and we went on with our conversation. We decided that this lunatic had some pretty serious issues (as well as being a little drunk), and that nothing we could have said in response would have been the right thing. She would have been ticked at anything we said, so we just ignored her. She left a few minutes later.
It was one of the oddest experiences of my life.
You spent $14 for a meal!?!?!
Couldn’t you have bought a @*&%@# .99 hamburger at Wendy’s and sent the rest to missions!?!? &%^#$%@*(%^
Tim, great to see you today and hang out. That truly was an unusual experience at Applebys. I’ll blog on the experience tomorrow or Saturday.
Mom?
Tim, we need to pray for that lady. There’s no telling what she’s been through. Seriously!
Sounds like you handled it well Tim. Man, talk about being caught off guard huh?
I agree with Joel. Sounds like a pastor’s wife or a youth worker to me.
Most likely a Cubs fan.
You’re a better man than I. I would have called the management to escort her hind-end right out the front door.