Anecdotes...
Was over at Dave's last night. Ate burgers and went swimming. Jeremy and Allison were there, too. Good food. Good times. Nothing like watching 2 year olds run around making noise for the sake of making noise (Caden and Kailyn, that is).
However, I did get lost trying to follow all the various DBC anecdotes Dave and Jeremy were sharing after dinner. While most of them were funny, I guess I couldn't relate to many of them because I didn't know the people in the stories. So - trying to not feel left out - I'd occasionally insert a story of my own from MCC. At that point Jeremy and Dave would look at me with a dumbfounded look that said, "That's just great, Kev..." and I would sheepishly mutter something like, "Tell me that story about the baptism near-drowning again..." as I tried to get the attention back off of me and my uninteresting anecdote from days gone by. I guess they had to know the people in my stories, too. Or maybe I just suck at storytelling. Heh.
Really, it's too bad that my friends up here can't relate to the countless MCC stories that used to get us laughing. There were some good times and funny moments back then.
How this kid Spencer couldn't walk across a room without falling...and would laugh like Barney Rubble every time he fell down.
Or how one of our worship leaders fell asleep while driving with his girlfriend (also asleep), and they spun off the road. Having survived the incident accident-free, his startled girlfriend asked what happened. He lied and said, "Um...there was a deer...I swerved to miss it." After they broke up a while later, they both found themselves working on staff at MCC a few years after that. Mark, the worship leader, shared the story about lying to a room full of teenagers, only to learn - at that moment - he'd never told the truth to his ex-girlfriend, either, who stood in the crowd with her mouth open in disbelief.
See? I know, you're sitting there (if you've read this far) saying, "That's great, Kevin." But you had to know these guys, too. I wish you did. There were some great people who used to be integral parts of my life.
You had to know that Mark was a great guy and gifted worship leader who had a little bad luck follow him around...mostly in a funny way. You had to know Spencer was the typical big, lovable oaf who was a little dimwitted at the time. But you don't. No more than I know who the Down's Syndrome kid is who used to like to hug and kiss guys at DBC (but, that's still somehow pretty funny to me).
Chad...I trust you're laughing as you read this. After all, you knew Mark. And who could forget Spencer? And don't get me started on Clark's excessive use of pickup lines on 6th grade girls...
In the meantime, I'll be content to hear the local story (again) about that guy who used to yell "Amen, brother" at random intervals during church services. I'll probably laugh out loud at that one again, while I'm secretly just laughing at my own memory of the time when a friend of mine passed out onstage during a prayer and then fell off the riser he was standing on and landed on some cymbals. Heh... Real-life slapstick comedy. Good stuff.
However, I did get lost trying to follow all the various DBC anecdotes Dave and Jeremy were sharing after dinner. While most of them were funny, I guess I couldn't relate to many of them because I didn't know the people in the stories. So - trying to not feel left out - I'd occasionally insert a story of my own from MCC. At that point Jeremy and Dave would look at me with a dumbfounded look that said, "That's just great, Kev..." and I would sheepishly mutter something like, "Tell me that story about the baptism near-drowning again..." as I tried to get the attention back off of me and my uninteresting anecdote from days gone by. I guess they had to know the people in my stories, too. Or maybe I just suck at storytelling. Heh.
Really, it's too bad that my friends up here can't relate to the countless MCC stories that used to get us laughing. There were some good times and funny moments back then.
How this kid Spencer couldn't walk across a room without falling...and would laugh like Barney Rubble every time he fell down.
Or how one of our worship leaders fell asleep while driving with his girlfriend (also asleep), and they spun off the road. Having survived the incident accident-free, his startled girlfriend asked what happened. He lied and said, "Um...there was a deer...I swerved to miss it." After they broke up a while later, they both found themselves working on staff at MCC a few years after that. Mark, the worship leader, shared the story about lying to a room full of teenagers, only to learn - at that moment - he'd never told the truth to his ex-girlfriend, either, who stood in the crowd with her mouth open in disbelief.
See? I know, you're sitting there (if you've read this far) saying, "That's great, Kevin." But you had to know these guys, too. I wish you did. There were some great people who used to be integral parts of my life.
You had to know that Mark was a great guy and gifted worship leader who had a little bad luck follow him around...mostly in a funny way. You had to know Spencer was the typical big, lovable oaf who was a little dimwitted at the time. But you don't. No more than I know who the Down's Syndrome kid is who used to like to hug and kiss guys at DBC (but, that's still somehow pretty funny to me).
Chad...I trust you're laughing as you read this. After all, you knew Mark. And who could forget Spencer? And don't get me started on Clark's excessive use of pickup lines on 6th grade girls...
In the meantime, I'll be content to hear the local story (again) about that guy who used to yell "Amen, brother" at random intervals during church services. I'll probably laugh out loud at that one again, while I'm secretly just laughing at my own memory of the time when a friend of mine passed out onstage during a prayer and then fell off the riser he was standing on and landed on some cymbals. Heh... Real-life slapstick comedy. Good stuff.
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