Double Whammy at Church????

Whammy #1) Approximately 5 minutes into mass a family of four decides to enter our pew. Whomever came before us left the kneeling bench down and apparently Mom of family decided it needed to be kicked loudly in to the pew with an angry face, perhaps because we didnt move in (which we would have done but we were both singing and did not notice them till they were on top of us). Well the angry kick was too strong for the kneeling bench and it bounced back down, to further her anger and so I did it for her and got an angry snarl. That's kind. Don't forget lady, YOUR IN CHURCH!.


Whammy #2) We do the 'peace be with you's'. To be fair I need you to know a few months ago with the H1N1 scare everyone was asked to nod heads and not shake hands. Of course people were asked to stay home if they were sick but you all know how well that works. ANYWAY.. So this time Kevin and I were like 'I wonder if that is still in effect'.. mostly cuz we've been absent for a few weeks so we weren't sure if there was an announcement. So the people in front of us did a head nod, and the people behind us shook hands, so we just kinda played it by ear. (hand?) and shook the hands of the people next to us (including angry mom in #1). Very amicably.
Here's the whammy- NOT EVEN a minute after the peaces we get a strong scent of cucumber melon and we observe the people next to us PURELLing all their hands. Like the 'peace be with you's THEY chose to hand shake,,,were completed with disease infested people and they couldn't wait to get rid of it'. (aka us). We kinda couldn't stop laughing cause it was so rude and ridiculous, and of course later Kevin says 'Jesus touched lepers and these people cant withhold purelling'.

I mean,, if your afraid of our hands DON'T SHAKE! others didn't, just don't shake! Oy..

The sad thing is these two whammys TOTALLY go against the concept of Chruch and missing the entire point and homily about kindness and love, the WHOLE concept!

So bloggies..
Peace be with YOU!:)
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