Instant Karma

Friday, December 1, 2006

Karma has not been kind to me lately. Just this week, as a matter of fact, Karma kicked me square in the nuts.

I left work early in the afternoon on Wednesday to meet Donna's family at the airport. About 20 of us, in-laws, nieces, nephews, siblings, etc met there to greet my brother-in-law as he returned to Zion from his two-year Mormon mission. I tried hard not to remind the loyal Mormons in the family of the request by the LDS church to limit gatherings at the airport for missionaries because, frankly, I don't give a shit what the LDS church has to say.

If they don't care either, well that's just super. Though it does make for a good time to see them both defend AND reject the advice of their church to me at the same time. Cognitive dissonance is fun to watch.

Anywhoodles, after I left work, I'm told, a gathering of local bartenders began to assemble in the lobby of the building where I work. The whole event was sponsored by Budweiser and a co-worker, who happened to have done some work with the King of Beers, was acquainted with the event organizer. This friend of a friend made the generous offer to everyone in the office to help themselves to the open-bar and made an early Christmas gift of a cooler full of ice-cold Bud.

I had two slices of pizza and a Diet Pepsi while Elder Brother-In-Law invented new ways to avoid chastising me for my apostasy.

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