I Thought You Said...

The children and I were visiting this evening, and I told them that Buds and I have two children’s story titles that we thought of years ago. I’ve started writing the stories, but they are waiting for time and effort to bring them to life.

The names of one of the books is The Day There Was No Breakfast.

After I shared the name, The Day There Was No Breakfast, Yessa said, “I’ll bet Daddy came up with that one.”

“I’m not sure,” I said, “He might have, but why do you think that?”

“Because of the title,” she replied.

“What do you mean?” I asked.

“The Data That Had No Breakfast!” she said, in a “duh” sort of voice.

This brought me to memories of speaking at my Aunt Sheila’s church where before she introduced me she led the crowd of women into prayer by announcing, “And now, lesbian prayer.”

It was a Methodist Church, so this was not inconceivable, but I was still surprised and made a mental note to ask her about it later.

“Did you really say, ‘And now lesbian prayer.’?” I asked her at dinner.

“WHAT?!” She was truly stumped.

I explained when I heard her say this, and the light went on in her eyes.

“And now let us be in prayer.”

Oh, yeah, that makes more sense.

Those “I thought you saids” are awesome!