Too Funny!

I am always finding humor in my simple city life. Here are a few things that happened recently that made me chuckle out loud.

Story #1
As you may or may not know, our religious beliefs are such that we believe the Sunday, the Sabbath Day, is to be kept holy. This means we try to go to church and avoid shopping, going out to eat, spending money; instead we worship, spend time with our families and prepare for the coming week. Last Sunday we signed up to feed two missionaries from our church, we did all of our shopping Friday night for chicken enchiladas. I asked C twice to please check the recipe to make sure we had everything we needed, he looked at me smugly stating that he has made enchiladas so many times he could make them in his sleep. Therefore his logical deduction from this was that he need not follow his wife's advice and check the recipe. We went to the store and bought what we needed and thought we were set.
Sunday after church rolls around and the missionaries are coming to eat at 6:30p.m. We start making dinner around 5:15p.m. only for C to discover (SHOCKER) he had forgot to buy enchilada sauce!!!! Now, you can image the joy I had rubbing in how right I was and how he should listen to his wife!!! We all know that the key ingredient to enchiladas is the sauce. C felt that he had no choice but to run to Star Market and make a purchase, as we had people coming to eat at our house in an hour.
C makes the run to the grocery, while he is out I am frantically trying to get everything else ready for the dinner and I get a phone call. The call is from my dear sweet hubby, he is calling from the bushes across the street. You see, as he is walking home, the missionaries are walking up the street. Anyone who knows anything about our religion knows that you DO NOT want to get caught going to the store on Sunday, it is just bad form!!! So C decided that he would just hide in the bushes from the missionaries until they passed the house. I was cracking up to know that instead of explaining the situation to the missionaries and face his embarrassment, my husband would rather hide in bushes! Too funny!


Story #2
Last night around 10:30 p.m. I was sitting on my couch watching the DNC on TV in my PJ's (old KY t-shirt and bleached sweat pants), face washed, teeth brushes, bra removed. I was in my happy pregnant lady mode! Suddenly C and I started smelling a burning smell, the kind that smells like a hair dryer just had some hair for breakfast. We were using our sniffers trying to locate the strange smell. We could not figure anything out, but it was strongest in our living and dining room. We called our upstairs neighbors who were out, but came home and they could smell it as well. They could smell it in their apartment but could not figure out where it was coming from either. My neighbor called the fire department to see if they could come check out the scene. Okay, I thought, good idea. WRONG!! BAD IDEA!! Not one, not two, not three, but FOUR fire engines with flashing lights show up blocking off our entire street! Not to mention the plolice car as well.
Keep in mind I am NOT dressed in any way for company, and all of the sudden there are 10 firemen going in and out of my house sniffing and using their electrical camera to take pictures of our outlets. They are all dressed in full head to toe fire gear and come in to my house caring around their axes. One says to me, we can bust open your wall if you want. Ummm....yeah, that is exactly what I was hoping you could do...what? Needless to say all of my elderly neighbors are all out on their front steps, this is great stuff for the next days pourch gossip. Charlotte across the street is so worried about me, she doesn't feel that being pregnant I should be around all "that smoke." No seriously, no smoke, no fire, just smells. Are 5 emergency vehicles really necessary?
They ended up finding nothing wrong with the house and couldn't locate a problem. They just suggested an electrician come and look at things. I do have to say though, that all the firefighters and police officers were very friendly and funny. Thanks for coming to our rescue, if we ever need real help, I feel that we will be well cared for!