There is a trophy store in the same building as my office, which is weird enough. Have you ever met someone socially whose honest-to-goodness career was Trophy Salesperson? I haven’t. I wonder if the trophy store is a front for some sort of mafia operation. Perhaps the Trophy Salespeople are actually Marijuana Salespeople. Who knows? Even more fascinating than the simple fact that a trophy store manages to stay in business on its trophy revenues is the fact that the door to the shop has a sign on it that says, “NO CELL PHONES! PLEASE BE COURTEOUS!”
Um, why no cell phones? Will the cell phone chatter of what is probably the ONLY customer in the trophy store really be all that distracting to the Trophy Salespeople? It’s not like they are doing advanced calculus in the back room down there or something – they are simply inscribing “Jimmy Metzger – AAA Softball Champ 2009″ on a faux copper plate and krazy-gluing it to a marble stand. (Or so I imagine.)
Hmm.
In other news, I am seriously considering starting a side business as a marriage officiant. I became an ordained minister through the Universal Life Church Monastery. In typical Lara fashion, I then started wondering if perhaps being a minister of the ULC is against my religion. I’ve been pondering this issue, and I actually don’t think it is. If you’d like to hear WHY, let me know and that will give me another post topic. If not, let’s talk instead about the fact that I actually think I would be very good at officiating weddings – and I think I would love it. There is a slight danger that I will choke myself up because I tend to cry at every single wedding I attend (including my own. That’s right. I cried at my own wedding. I was just so moved by the whole exchange of vows and by having all the people we loved and who loved us in one room and…well, I got verklempt). So, stay tuned. I really might make myself a Wedding Officiant website and see what happens. And, of course, blog about my experiences.
Thanks to everyone who weighed in on my ugly shirt! My favorite thing about that poll is the fact that I don’t think the results will deter me from continuing to wear it. Heh. Oh, my other favorite thing is the fact that four people think that the shirt is pretty and makes my boobs look bigger.
Happy Hump Day, Everyone!
Um, you should TOTALLY become a wedding officiant. We had SUCH a hard time finding someone, and the person we DID get turned out to be crap on a stick. You’d be GREAT. DO IT.
I didn’t comment on the ugly shirt because I thought surely, it must be a joke!! Word of advice, don’t wear it when you are officiating weddings. But I do like the thought of you officiating weddings.
Your Trophy Salesperson ruminations made me snort into my Diet Coke.
OMG. I could never officiate weddings. i’d be getting snot all over everrrrything. Cry, cry, cry.
I would love to hear about this religious tug-of-war.
My second husband and I were married by a minister from the Universal Life Church. He (my husband) subsequently became a minister himself. And he cried at his own ordination! hahaha He’s a sweet guy. (Even though we’re not married any more.)
How could being in the ULC be against your religion? It’s not like you’re a bacon-eating Jew or something. Is it about the whole women being priests thing? Did you hear that the conservative and more traditional part of the Church of England has been approached by the Catholoc Church to join them? For the same reasons – some people in the C of E are against gay marriage and women priests. I just thought that was interesting, because my Dad was brought up C of E. He’s not at all religious, although he doesn’t like the idea of gay marriage. …So, do tell!
I love that you are convinced the trophy shop is a front for something else, because I thought the exact same thing about the Polka Dot Square Dance Shop a few miles from my house and the place that supposedly sells only seat covers in the town where I went to college. Totally a mob front, right? I mean, SQUARE DANCE SHOP??
What is the latest and most expensive cellphones this year ?”‘*
i am sort of obsessed with the latest cellphones on the market and i am always on the lookout,*’