I hate to play the "can you top this?" game since I love you all and it's not really my style...but if you read Will Smamma's recent post about her episode at Wendy's...you'll love this.
Last Sunday, while i was preaching on Exodus (stressful enough for me), a parishioner's phone started ringing...loudly
I love this parishioner. She's a fairly new member with a great sense of humor and she doesn't take much seriously. She also LOVES to kid around. So I stopped in the middle of manna (while she was scrambling to find her phone in her enormous handbag) and said in a school marm voice "Oh [parishioner]... I think we'll have to fine you... Let's make {parishioner] put an extra five dollars in the plate." To which she sheepishly replied "Sorry" and left the sanctuary.
She returned 3 minutes later, grabbed her handbag and left.
Yes, I began to break out in a sweat, remembering she has an elderly mother.
After the sermon, during the deacon's reading of 'joys of and concerns' that I clumsily fold into the pastoral prayer, the deacon announces "Let's also pray for [parishoner and family] she had to leave to meet a town official at her home, because yesterday, she had had a house fire."
Hi, my name is dumb ass, have we met?
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6 comments:
Oh geez.
In a similar situation, our pastor stopped in the middle of the sermon, smiled, and said, "If it's for me, tell them I'm busy."
Ouch. So sorry.
oof, sorry that happened. Thinking of you.
Peace and love,
oh, yuck!
oy. sorry. hope you and she are okay!
oh man - gotta hate that! sounds exactly like something i would do.
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