Yesterday I got home from work and decided to buy a case of beer because, why not? It’s Monday. The shop is conveniently round the corner from my place. In I go full of the joys of December and there’s a JW woman from my last congregation. You know the type. Divorced her non-JW husband, he got the kids because the courts “obviously” had it in for JWs. She’s been hunting for an elder to marry since then and is the go-to person for gossip or finding out why someone got disfellowshipped.
Typical me, being a human being, does what anyone would do. I recognise a face, my mind doesn’t register who it is so I smile and say “Hi!” as I walk past. Her reaction can only be described as a scowl. Imagine shining a flashlight into a dark room filled with rats who cant stand the light. That sort of scowl. Then it registered who she was.
I head to the beer aisle. She watches with a face like a smacked ass. I go to the checkout and she’s on the phone talking to someone while looking at me.
I’m polite and friendly to the staff, they all know me because I’m there so often. Only this old cow is the one miserable this December.
I’ll be the talk of the Thursday meeting :) Except by the time it reaches their ears the story will be I was buying booze, condoms and cigarettes while having white powder under my nose after snorting it off a prostitutes ass.
………………….I hope.