Not since Forest Gump went to China to play ping pong has the world seen anything like this. Ok, Forest Gump did not go to China, but these tricks are pretty cool. I realize that there must have been many, many out-takes before this whole collection was put together, but let's give the guys credit for sticking with it.
From the looks of it, they are high school students and we'll just give them the benefit of the doubt that they had all their homework done. Yeah, right.
Some of the funniest things that have happened to me as a pastor have been unexpected things that happened in front of crowds. For instance, I remember a Christmas Eve service where one of our readers suddenly announced that he was going to chant his reading instead and then proceeded to do so very poorly. There I was sitting on the platform facing everyone, trying to look blessed.
And then there was the time that the water heater for the baptismal tank had broken - leaving the water incredibly cold. It was hard enough to keep a saintly face on when I walked down into the chill, but what do you do when the person entering to be baptized puts a toe in and mutters "Holy $@^*, that's cold!"
Sometimes in life you just have to roll with the punches and flow with the moment. Like this taxi driver who somehow ended up being mistaken for an expert in something else.
I've already told you about my first guitar lesson (on an accordian), so now let me tell you about my piano lesson.
A long time ago, in a land far away, I met and fell in love with a beautiful maiden - a piano teaching maiden to be exact. As we grew closer I told here I thought it would be fun for her to teach me to play the piano, and so my first lesson began. Things were going not too badly until she told me my arms were too tense. So I tried to relax them. Again, "Relax your arms,"she said while tapping them gently. I tried again. "Relax your arms." I tried again. "Relax your arms." I tried again and again and again until I was so tense trying to relax my arms I turned to the dear girl and explained that perhaps it would be better for us if I didn't learn the piano from her.
Twenty-two years later, we are still together and I still can't play the piano - though I am proud to say that I can play better than this cat.
I can relate to this commercial. I'm no old yet, but I notice myself getting older and I am already hoping that that someday younger people are nice to me. According to my calculations, I'm going to have a sore ankle (when an auto racing injury catches up with me), a sore neck (car accident) and maybe a bit of arthritis in my hand (plus who knows what else).
So, my geriatiric shopping excursions should be quite adventurous. Maybe I'll get one of those scooters. That way I can work on some fresh racing injuries too.
There are some things that are better experienced watching them on video instead of personally. I think that this is one of them.
I don't mind the odd creepy thing. I also don't mind the odd crawling thing. But anything that crawls by the millions is just too creepy for me. So the Christmas crabs that take over this island every year are now added to my "Don't need to do that" list along with snakes, spiders, bees, scorpions, eels, and any kind of chocolate with a second flavor mixed into it.
The things that don't bother some people!