My world is memes.. I love them.. probably because they reflect my smart ass mouth and mind set..but alas. They cheer me up and cheer others up and if they bring a smile, chuckle, or a drink blown across a laptop reading it, ‘it’s worth it’. Life is to short to be pissed all the time.. people always ask me, “where do you find these?”.. I laugh and say, “I think they find me.. usually what is going on in my life fills my feed with thee best ‘advice’ one could ask”. Honestly that is a true story.. but, one came across my page the other day that made me chuckle as it really happened.. some commented on it with laughs and likes, but the real story behind it is a good one and that meme brought it all back. I figure it should be written down, so the kids remember who they are dealing with..The Stauff and I started dating in January 1997. He was a good guy..went to church every week. Me.. I spent those nights dancing and drinking maybe a little too much when I wasn’t working.. Sundays found me sleeping till noon when I wasn’t working.. Sunday AM found The Stauff in church..polar opposites..when we started dating this new world intrigued me and when he asked if I wanted to tag along with him to ⛪ church one Saturday night I was like oh yes, I would love to.. At work we all talked about who was doing what for the weekend.. I say, “well The Stauff and I are going to Saturday night church”. All went quite and heads turned my way. “You are going to church?” They all gazed at me.. I rolled my eyes at them them..”come on now”, I said, “I have gone to church when I was a kid every once in a while and a few times in college.” They all laughed at me. I laughed at them, “well..what is the worst thing that could happen?”.. I got grief the rest of the day with everyone dreaming up things that would happen..I waved them off laughing.. I got off work and headed home to get ready for my date with The Stauff. Just so happened it was the beginning of Lent..and The Stauff was a pretty serious Catholic..like I knew what any of this meant..he picked me up and away we went to church. As we were driving The Stauff made mention how weird the clouds were. He said, “it is so weird, it almost acts like a summer storm rolling in”. A part of me stopped and pondered that storm word, but I shook it off and kept on chatting about my day..when we pulled into the parking lot, the clouds had become very dark and lightning glows were poking through the clouds..I started to get a real uneasy feeling.. The Stauff said, “I can’t believe this, we never get weather like this this early in the year”. I let out a nervous giggle as I took a gander out the window.. lightning was getting close and was starting to stab down to the ground, thunder erupting through the parking lot..The Stauff says, “we should make a run for it before this storm hits, looks like a lot of rain coming”. I ran my fingers through my hair, wiped the sweat beads that were forming under my hair line. “Frick” I thought, “this shit isn’t happening..this is just a freak coincidence”. I kept repeating that mantra as I stepped out of the pickup and ran to the church. As I was running little bits of hail started to fall on us. I picked up my pace.. lightning was stabbing which seemed right next to us..I am in a full sprint now..The Stauff threw the door open, bailed inside and slammed the door.. bigger hail stones beating the hell out of the church… My eyeballs were about to fall out of my head..my heart was beating a hundred miles an hour.. all I could think about was, “what have I done? Dude? Seriously what have I done that was so bad”. We find a seat and sit down.. The heavens dumped a heavy rain on the church..lightning still striking all around. The electricity flickering..The Stauff keeps saying, “this is just crazy, I have never seen anything like this”. If someone would had said 👻 boo I probably would have pulled a Forest Gump and ran my ass all the way back to Wyoming.. I was spooked.. I was scared to think what was coming.. the storm finally subsided and the service started. I calmed down a little, thinking that God was 1) playing with me and laughing along or 2) teaching me a lesson..I just wasn’t sure which one it was. Pretty soon we are in the service and the Father walks down the aisle shaking holy water out to the members. I glance up to see what is all going on and I get a face full..it felt like it was burning.. I asked The Stauff, “what the hell is this? This shit feels like it is burning my face. Why is that?”. The Stauff just smiled and said “I wonder”.. I wiped it all off my face and pondered what he said through the rest of the service.. we left the church and he grabbed my hand as we walked out.. I thought “whew, maybe lightning won’t strike me being connected to The Stauff”.. we crawled in the pickup and The Stauff said, “still can’t get over that storm, hard to believe there is no damage to my pickup.”. I just laughed as we pulled out of the parking lot and said, “baby, I don’t t think it was your pickup the storm was chasing”.. I did end up changing a few of my crazy ways..just in case..🤪🌪⛈💧💨🌈⛪️
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