July 9, 2009
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Comic relief
I took Pendragon and SonnetJoy to the airport to put them on their flight to Honduras this morning. We got there in plenty of time, and there are stories to be told about all that, but I will let them tell their own stories. But …
There was a family right behind us as we went through the check-in point, mom & dad and a teen and a boy about eight years old. The two brothers had obviously been “into it” with each other all morning already. The older boy said something like “Well, I don’t have any metal on me;” and the little brother replied “I don’t have any metal either, not even any money.”
Well, here was a chance that was too good to be missed! I said to the boy, “Here, let me check you out;” and a opened my cell phone and began waiving it around his head, pushing the side buttons as fast as I could, making the phone beep. “Well,” I said, “I’m not so sure about that, maybe you do have something there in your head!” The kid stood real still and started looking around for support from his family. When they said nothing, I told the kid, “You know I’m just messing with you, don’t you?” “Yeah! Yeah, I knew that,” he replied with a relieved sigh.
Not satisfied to let it go at that, I said, “When you get back home, if you’ll get some of your Mom’s aluminium foil and make a hat out of it, and wear it all the time, no one will be able to read your mind any more!” His mom & dad giggled, and his brother gaped. Pendragon started muttering, “I don’t know this guy, I never saw him before in my life.”
It provided some much needed comic relief.
Comments (5)
It was hilarious!
@sonnetjoy - It was all spontanious. I could not have told you 30 seconds in advance what I was going to say to that kid.
Now that's funny! Sounds like something Rollin would do!
BTW, what do you think of The Shack? I've heard people "put it down" because of some of the symbolism, but I thought it was great if you didn't take it "literally".
@susanlowe - "The Shack" Well, I'm really just starting in it. Everything I know about it is hear-say; but two of my sisters recommended it to me as something interesting and thought provoking. If it is a parable and a metaphore, ok and maybe more than just okay. Everything we say and read is a metaphore, when we reduce it to it's origin and source. I'll write a review of the book when I get done with it.
@temsmail -
I'm looking forward to reading that review.
It was lovely to meet SonnetJoy and Pendragon in the Miami airport. Traffic in that city is a beast, and the airport is a bizarre maze, so I was rushing from concourse to concourse worried that I was so late I'd completely miss them. But then as I saw a sign for Concourse C and began hurrying towards it, I was stopped by an Aura and turned to look. Sure enough, there were two white people sitting conspicuously in a small waiting area, and one of them wore a Death by Ramen T-shirt. I think Pen and I squinted at one another for a good thirty seconds before deciding that we had each found who we were looking for.
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