Saturday Respite: Cell Phone or Education. Pick One.

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1. Ronald Richard Duquette says

   February 21, 2015 at 7:10 am

   Happened to me.  Was directing a program of “Lessons & Carols” at our chapel; had just completed the opening piece, and I turned to explain what Lessons and Carols were, and, dontcha know it, RING, RING, RING!!!  “Hello?  Martha?  No, I can’t talk right now.  No, I can’t really talk; I’m in the middle of a service.  I’ll call you back later!”  My bass section leader said to me afterward, “I could see from your body language that you wanted to go down to where this woman was seated, snatch the phone from her, and scream, ‘If you shouldn’t be talking, then DON’T.’  I was amazed at your self-restraint.”  I DID stare at her very coldly before going on – I thought the temperature in the room had dropped by at least 50 degrees, but that could’ve been attributable to the WONDERFUL air-handling system there (heating during the summer, AC during the winter) – yet another proof of 1) your tax dollars at work, and 2) engineers who try to save money already appropriated to do things right by making sure things are done wrong.  And of course, this teacher sounds like she was teaching in a foreign tongue, and you know about them ferners, dontcha?  Unless this WAS in a foreign country.  So she probably got away with doing this.  On the other hand, it’s funny when it hits someone who has just commented about not having your cell phones on, and his own bursts into full and very noisy life, as it did to one of our priests at Mass.  Imagine the picture of him fumbling his way through all his vestments while being VERY red-faced – and the congregation getting a huge giggle out of it.  (We DO have a good relationship with our priests, I must say – and they’re just as ready to laugh at things as we are!)

    

   Ron

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