Sunday, December 18, 2005

Nervous? Here, have some fire.

This morning was Darby's first altar serving duty at church, and she was very nervous about it, especially considering what happened at her piano recital yesterday. I was amused by the fact that they gave a nervous rookie a flaming stick. Okay, it was a candle, but still, they gave her something that was on fire, and that had the potential to cause damage if she wasn't careful. Fortunately she did fine, and no church-goers were harmed in the making of that experience.


The otherwise uneventful day was interrupted by a solitary noteable event (aside from the Eagles actually winning), a crazy teenaged driver.

I was driving on a residential street, going the speed limit (25mph), when I was passed by an impatient young woman that then ran a stop sign. After I stopped at the stop sign, I pulled up to a guy standing in his driveway, and asked if he saw her run the stop sign. He confirmed what I saw.

In the meantime, she actually pulled into a nearby driveway, so I pulled up to the driveway as she got out of the car, rolled down my window, and simply asked if she realized that she ran a stop sign. Her reaction? She flipped me off and went in the house.

Had Shelby not been with me, I would have put the car in park, knocked on the door, and asked to see the flipper-offer's parents. Instead, I went on my way to my destination. I have more to say about the matter, but I'm realizing that it's not worth further effort.

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