The One On The Right Was On The Left And The One On The Left Was On The Right
In our latest episode of "People talking to Danny while he's trying to work on a book at a local fast food restaurant":
Saturday before last I'm minding my own business working on the WIP when an older lady approaches me and starts asking me about the book. Immediately, of course, being in a fast food restaurant I suddenly worry she's going to ask me to write her memoir, since that's the way this flowchart usually goes. Not this time, though - instead she engaged in a bit of virtue signalling and told me, "I let you go ahead of me in line because men go first. That's what God says."
(Now bear in mind I didn't even realize she'd let me go ahead of her in line. I hadn't even seen her before she came up to my table. As far as I knew there wasn't anyone else in that part of the restaurant when I got in line.)
As she says this it occurs to me that I've met this woman before, or at least someone like her who said that, though it had been years. Typically what I did then was to just nod and say thank you. But this particular day I'd spent most of the day clearing gutters and doing yard work, I ached all over, I just wanted to work on my book, and I was feeling grumpy. So I asked her, "Where does God say that?"
She told me, "In Genesis God created men first, so men go first."
I answered, "But in Genesis God created animals before men. Does that mean animals go before people?"
"That's not what that means," she grumbled in a very non-submissive way, and stormed off. I wonder if I spoiled her night.
At any rate, if I encounter her again, I think next time I may quote Matthew 20:16 to her - "The last will be first, and the first last" - and offer to let her go ahead of me.
Saturday before last I'm minding my own business working on the WIP when an older lady approaches me and starts asking me about the book. Immediately, of course, being in a fast food restaurant I suddenly worry she's going to ask me to write her memoir, since that's the way this flowchart usually goes. Not this time, though - instead she engaged in a bit of virtue signalling and told me, "I let you go ahead of me in line because men go first. That's what God says."
(Now bear in mind I didn't even realize she'd let me go ahead of her in line. I hadn't even seen her before she came up to my table. As far as I knew there wasn't anyone else in that part of the restaurant when I got in line.)
As she says this it occurs to me that I've met this woman before, or at least someone like her who said that, though it had been years. Typically what I did then was to just nod and say thank you. But this particular day I'd spent most of the day clearing gutters and doing yard work, I ached all over, I just wanted to work on my book, and I was feeling grumpy. So I asked her, "Where does God say that?"
She told me, "In Genesis God created men first, so men go first."
I answered, "But in Genesis God created animals before men. Does that mean animals go before people?"
"That's not what that means," she grumbled in a very non-submissive way, and stormed off. I wonder if I spoiled her night.
At any rate, if I encounter her again, I think next time I may quote Matthew 20:16 to her - "The last will be first, and the first last" - and offer to let her go ahead of me.