First of all, The Kid is here this weekend.  He called on Wednesday or something like that all, my Fall Break plans fell through, CAN I COME OVER?  I guess he was going to go to Florida or something.

Anyway, we said he could come.  So he showed up on Friday evening and it has been a party ever since.  Actually, less a party and more just we’re all tired so we’re dragging ourselves around trying to find the motivation to brush our teeth.  (True story: The Kid and I realized at about 12:30 while on the way to lunch that neither one of us had brushed our teeth yet today.  I’m not sure what our problem is.)

Joey had to go to the office today because he’s preaching tomorrow and his sermon was mostly (but not quite) finished.  This left The Kid and I to mess around the house and try to do projects.  Here’s what we have accomplished so far:

• Tried to hook up the Interwebs catcher from AT&T…but we had Some Difficulty with wiring due to the fact that someone (cough) cut all the phone jacks out of the walls.  The Kid and I made a trip to Lowe’s, where the sales guy told us to buy the wrong kind of wire, but we still bought it even though we were sure it was wrong.  I’m not sure if that makes it our fault or not.  Anyway, no webs.
• Tried to run the leaf blower.  No gas.
• Tried to run the riding lawn mower and mulcher.  Once again, no gas.  Also, it was dirty and The Kid said “I’m not riding that until we spray it off with a hose.  You do have a hose, don’t you?”  Yes, of course we have a hose.  We have like 18 of them because Gramps offloaded a portion of his hose stash when they moved a couple weeks ago.
• Tried to rake.  I got about…ten minutes into it and then got hungry and quit.
• Successfully picked up the litter in the front ditch.
• Moved the trash can back to the back of the house where it belongs.
• Got flipped off by a guy who wanted $2.00 for gas and we wouldn’t give it to him.  He didn’t seem legit to me in the first place and, after he did that, he really didn’t win any points with either The Kid or me.

So basically, we’ve failed at everything we’ve tried to do except for like two things..  And to top it all off, we haven’t brushed our teeth.  (Not even Joey did, I just asked him.)

The plan was to meet for lunch at 12:30 at Boogie Burger.  So about 12:10, The Kid, Henry and I got in the RAV-4 and drove down to Broad Ripple where we found Joey.  Coincidentally, we parked in the same parking lot even though we were coming from two different places.  It was magical.

We ordered our food (rather, they ordered while I stood outside with Henry) and then sat down at a table in the sun to drink our drinks and eat our eats.  About ten minutes into the meal, Joey shot out of his chair like it had just lit his pants on fire and said, “I need more root beer!”

Immediately after Joey left, a man came up to the table and started talking to Henry.  It was kind of weird, but we are used to people stopping by to see Henry because he’s furry and slightly cute.  Most people are suckers for things that are furry, even if they’re only slightly cute.

“Nice dog,” said the man.

“Thanks,” I replied, and then I started to say something else…..but the dude totally turned around and walked away from me as I was talking to him.  It was super weird.  The Kid and I just raised our eyebrows at each other and went back to eating our fries.  Joey shortly returned with his root beer, and all was right in the world.

Until.

Just as we were finishing up, the man came back.  And he brought his friend.  We had been noticing him this whole time running around in the street, stopping people to ask them if they were here for “the auditions”, and giving people directions to places they hadn’t asked for directions to.  He seemed like he may be a little….off.

Anyway, he was back.

He walked right up to our table and looked down at Henry and said, “Oh….Oh….you guys are BLESSED.  I mean, you have a NATURAL CREATURE who loves you unconditionally.”  He paused and watched Henry sniff around on the ground for a second.  Then, “I mean, have you ever loved anyone unconditionally?”

Joey, The Kid and I all stopped chewing.  An awkward silence fell over the table as each of us tried to decide how we wanted to answer the question.  We were all trying to figure out if this guy was trying to share the gospel with us, or if he was just kind of awkward.  I mean, we had been watching him run around in the street for the last 15 minutes causing confusion.  After what seemed like a super long amount of time but probably was only about 3 seconds, The Kid mumbled, “well, I’ve tried…”

And the weird thing?  The guy had already started walking away the minute he asked us if we had ever loved anyone unconditionally.  I don’t even think he heard our answer.

So, probably not trying to share the gospel.

Five minutes later, he drove by in a truck and waved at us.  That’s when we decided it was time to leave.