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Friday, March 31, 2006

Okay, so continuing in the saga of my odd spring break trip to Biloxi, we take the story back up where Gomer the Idiot Carpenter had just revealed that the tender parts of his psyche could not stand spiders apparently even more than a friend of mine. I make this assumption because rather than send one of the other people down there with the spiders, he happily kept us all out of the danger of eight legged freakiness.

My other friend would have happily sent us house diving if it meant not chopping up some poor lady's floor, and that's just fine folks.

Alright. So. After the dreaded spider revelation we loaded the truck back up because that was literally all we were doing at this lady's house. Our slightly grumpy band of still-eager missionaries plowed onward to the next house on the list, making a brief stop at Lowe's for one single small piece of plumbing that we needed. The only reason we needed said piece of plumbing was because Gomer the Idiot Carpenter also added Idiot Plumber to his list of achievements the day before by digging straight through a lady's waterline.

Arriving at the second house, we bail out and start unloading tools while Gomer runs behind the house. Ryan deftly handed me a bag of plumbing fixtures and joints, and we all headed for the source of trouble, only to be met by Gomer coming back around the house.

"What are y'all doin'?" He asked.

We all stared blankly, and a few of us pointed weakly at the water main he had broken.

He shook his head like a big shaggy bear and goes "Naw! I'm done! Only thing ah had to do was around back!"

So we got back in the truck...

and left.

By this time, get this... it was lunchtime. We had done nothing the entire day, and let me tell you, it made for a really unhappy group of men and one woman who just wanted to help somebody. There was destruction everywhere, but we had done nothing the entire day.

As soon as we got back to the church, we all agreed on something.

We weren't going to do this anymore.

They had told us the very first day that we were there that if we did not like what we were doing on a project to just walk up the street and ask somebody if they needed help, so we decided to take them at their word and do just that. We were tired of unfinished projects, tired of not helping people improve the situation they were in. There were some people in my group who I had never seen angry the entire time I'd known them.

Oh, you know who you are!

Anyways, after we made this decision, everyone immeadiately felt better. We were excited, a little nervous about stepping out like this (such rebels!) and really really happy to be doing something that felt more in line with what we thought God had called us to do down there.

During lunch, however, Gomer came up to me and we had a little confrontation. He stopped me in the bathroom of all places, and holds out his hand with a smug look on his face.

"Dude. After lunch, we're really gonna hit it hard!" He says to me.

I looked him straight in the eye and said. "No, no we aren't."

He looks confused for a second, and then says "No, really. I've got us another job! Another older couple who need their lawn done. Just up the street from the last house."

I started trying to talk, but he stopped me again and says "Now, it ain't gonna be nothing too hard, just some easy work."

I say "Gomer! We really want to do something hard!"

He kind of waves that off and goes "Ahh naw! You guys are going to have a fun day tomorrow on the beach! You need an easy day!"

I gaped at him, and say "Yesterday was an easy day! We really want to do something hard!"

He just kind of laughed at the idiot kid, though, and left me standing there awkwardly in the bathroom as an old guy exited the stall and gave me a weird look.

Right at the end of lunch, my friends Ryan and Carl went to tell Gomer that we were not going to be on the other crew. These two guys are some kind of special studs, because Carl told him that we just had another job we were going to do. Apparently he got all flustered and started going on about how we needed to do yardwork for the memebers of the church, and Ryan instantly p0wn3d him with his fury alone. He told Gomer that there were people sleeping under the bridge, and he didn't think that lawn work was important.

I love those guys, and I wish I'd heard it.

I'm going to need one more entry to finish this guy up, but I promise, it's the best part of the entire trip. If you've been following the story, then it really is a storybook ending filled with some of the best characters I know.

It's a lucky man who has friends like these.

TimChose [ 1:18 PM ]