God’s Jester

I think God likes me, by that I mean that I think I make Him laugh. A lot. I don’t mean to do it. I’m not a funny person. It’s just that dumb stuff always happens to me, stuff that happens to nobody else. Like today when I glued my coat and shirt to my stomach. Who does that?

I put on an old coat from the garage because the Computer Guy was still asleep (he’s sick today)and I didn’t want to wake him up by getting mine so I just grabbed his old coat and ran to the grocery store. Something kept poking me, but I figured he had left something in his pocket and tried to ignore it until it stuck to me. Horrors! The poking thing was a glue mouse trap that was stuck to the inside of the coat and now my shirt and to me! I zipped up and finished my errand and tried to pull it off in the car. Have you ever messed with one of those sticky mouse trap things? They’re sticky..and stuff (I know, I have a wonderful gift for stating the obvious. Sue me.)

The more I pulled and moved and twisted, the more strings of glue got all over me and the car. That’s when I noticed that there were dead bugs in the glue. There went my last shred of dignity. I got my morning workout this morning fighting the strands of super stickiness that were now all over me. When I got home, I went upstairs to pull off the shirt and the coat and hopefully avoid getting it in my hair. That’s when the Computer Guy looked at me in his old coat and said, “Oh, my coat. Did you get the glue trap off of it?”

I love that man, and I hope God enjoyed this morning’s antics. I’m glad to know that with all the bad stuff going on all over, he’s got me to lighten things up.