You may remember a few weeks ago when I had the pleasure of dealing with the bi-polar alcoholic that ran the gamut from sitting with him in a parking lot from midnight to about 1:15 a.m., taking him to the hospital, listening to him rant about how he hated me and the church while also proclaiming that we were the only place who cared about him.
I dubbed that event, "Manic Monday."
Yesterday we had a very unkempt, scraggly and ragged homeless gentleman who goes by the name of Dust come into the office to talk to me. During the course of our "conversation," I learned that he was very worried and upset.
"You know . . . there are people who talk in numerical numerals and they're evil. They've been talking to me about 25 and 47. Twenty-five isn't too bad, but 47 is really bad and they keep talking to me about that and I just want them to stop talking numerically about numbers because I'm really worried about 47. Have you heard them talking about that? Do you know what that means?"
"No, I really haven't. What is it about 47?"
"I don't know man . . . but I know it's not good. I need some protection prayers to keep the numericals away from me. Can you do that?"
"I can do that."
So I flipped through the BCP, found a prayer he really liked, printed it out for him, and sent him on his way with a bottle of water, hopefully that much safer from the people who are speaking in numerical numbers.
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Weird Wednesday
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2 comments:
Forty-seven, huh? Everybody knows the answer is 42.
You do meet some interesting people in this line of work, don't you?
Maybe if he had heard 42 he wouldn't have been worried about it.
And, yes . . . interesting people.
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