Catholics @ MindSay

that I only posted one story about my trip to Canada. So here's another.

We were driving to the giant, touristy mall called the Forks on our one-and-only free day. We were all excited to finally get the chance to take a break from the cramped chruch and go shopping and go-karting. We pulled into the gravel parking lot, where we were so distracted by the huge, weird-looking bridge nearby that we almost didn't notice the purple minivan that parked right between our two church vans at the very same moment. "Hah, we sandwiched that car. I wonder if it's the group from Minnesota. I heard they came up in a regular van," someone said.

We were about to get out when we saw that the middle-aged woman who had been driving the minivan had gotten out, slammed her door, and stomped her way over to the driver's side window of the other van, where our youth leader, Matt was sitting. We couldn't see or hear much, though we opened our windows slightly to try to catch a few words, and we did. Those words were, "...HELL!" and "...HOOLIGANS!" From what the people in van under attack told us, she was accusing us of throwing rocks at her car. Matt tried to calmly explain to her that this was impossible, seeing as how our vans only have windows on the side that open very slightly, and they were closed. He suggested that maybe, since we were driving on a gravel road... But the woman wouldn't hear any of it. She went on a crazed rant about how her children would never do such a thing because they go to Catholic school, and everyone in her church is better than the likes of us and we would never be welcome there. Also, we were going to be judged in Hell. When Matt (who is quite soft-spoken and abhors this kind of confrontation) had finally had enough, he said, "God will judge all of our sins, and He alone will judge our sins. Have a great day," and rolled up the window.

However, the woman apparently had not gotten all of the screaming out of her system, because she proceeded to storm over to the window of our driver, Tree (a very tall, people-person from the last story). She then said shrilly, on the verge of tears it seemed, "Those hooligans in the other van threw rocks at my car and you people continue to DENY IT!" Tree, remaining pleasant, replied, "Well, if that's true, that was very wrong of us to do."

She obviously had no idea what to say to that, but was still quite angry. She backed away, waving her arms manically and screaming, "I just can't DEAL with you people! You hooligans! HOOLIGANS!!!" She paced back and forth a few times, pulling at her short, curly hair, until it occured to her to write down the name of our church, which was painted on the side of the vans. Her teenage daughter had apparently already written down our license plates from the passenger seat of the minivan. A girl in our van said she felt sorry for her, but the scowl that was escaping from under her giant, bug-like sunglasses suggested she wasn't at all embarressed.

The woman must have thought the act of writing down our church name was a threatening enough gesture to end her rampage with an air of now-we'll-see-who-gets-the-last-laugh and she drove away. Our theory is that she was a hardcore Catholic who saw our van, noted that we weren't Catholic like her, and when a pebble from the gravel road got kicked up and hit her car, she naturally assumed it was us. Us with our dirty, slightly different belief system.

Everyone exclaimed how the lady needed to be locked up and put on heavy mediaction, but I maintained that she just started menopause, was recently fired from her job, and her mom probably just died. Her dog, too.

Windy and blustery.. but sunny and gorgeous.. it was unusually hot last night, muggy.. had to turn on the air conditioning unit... and had to have the ac on here at the office this morning.. strange strange... and joseph in my nativity outside keeps getting knocked over from the wind in my nativity scene... lol.. poor guy.. he always seems to get the short end of the stick even since the begining....lOL! I mean do catholics worship Joseph like they do Mary? I dont know.. I hear more about the virgin mary than I do joseph.. And in my opinion.. once she gave birth and everything, I am sure that she gave poor ol' Joe some lovin, that totally takes her out of the virgin category.

Just some idle ramblings in the middle of a sunny Friday afternoon.. off to my acupuncture treatment, Enjoy the song..its one of my favorites!

Love and Laughter,

Dawn

my september 12th and 13th were pretty uneventful.

today emma sat w/ me on the bus and she attepted to eat a muffin. IT WAS HILLRIOUS!!! (it was a "you had to be there thing")

on the 11th from about 5:00pm to 7:00 were great. to make a long story short (cuz i dont hav much time). i went to alex's youth group meeting with Emma at OLG.  for the first hour the other  people participated in an activity (we met this guy named matt). then about 6:00. me and Emma were like lets ditch this shit so we walk out into the hallway and motion to alex and matt to come out. we knew matt would do it ut we didnt think Alex had the balls to skip out (cause he would get in HUGE trouble if he did). but much to our surprise he came! so we all go out and hang out on the playground (lol very bad-ass! NOT)  Matt and Emma "paired off" in one of the playground tunnels. and me and alex talked and cuddled on the playground for an hour then he walks me home and i get a little peck on the mouth. he calls me up at 10:30, it turns out he got in BIG trouble.....

and thats why Alex is grounded off the comp. another two weeks. 

(there were LOTS and LOTS and LOTS  of awesome details to this story.... *sigh* oh well)

Well, I'e had a badly twisted ankle with possible tendon injury since friday last week and this has both caused me a lot of pain, and lack of sleep. I have traced back the reasons for my pain and found that I only need hold one thing accountable for this injury. Christianity. Their belief in God, and thus his IVF kid Jesus (and somehow the 'Holy Spook') produced the religion we know as Christianity today. From that stemmed Catholosism, which influenced the founder of Marist Colleges world wide. Marcellin Champagnat is the reason my school exisits, and thanks to 'religion' we are forced to study it in all years of schooling. If I didn't have to study religion, I wouldn't be doing a 'minor' Religious Ed course thus I would not have to do a 'minor' Physical Education to fill in the missed periods in the line. If I didn't have to do PE, because of religion, I would not be hobbling around today in pain. I blame Religion!

Therefore, I would not be injured if I didn't have to pariciapte in PE because I hate Religion that we are forced to study becasue 2000 years ago some IVF baby decided to heal some people and argue with the church of the time thus getting himself crucified becasue 'he didn't like the power of the church of the time'.

Did I mentionm I loathe chritianity?

-- Lory