When he quoted the Lord’s Prayer, I didn’t let on that I thought of John Candy imploring gold medals to be won and Godspeed through turn seven.
I nodded that with our increasingly secular government, our country is far from a
But, his real hook was hurricane Katrina.
Considering
Jehovah Is Coming.
I thanked him for my copy of Watchtower, “Natural Disasters: Are They Getting Worse?” (Yes? And inside I can learn why we should rejoice?)
Then, he found out that I go to school in LA.
“Ohh, that must be exciting! They had a few earthquakes last year didn’t they?”
“Umm. . . yeah I actually felt a small one during one of my final exams, it was a little scar-”
“I’d like to be in one sometime; not a really big one but – just to experience it once. And out there, they really know how to deal with it. I heard they’ll fill their bathtubs with water in case the power goes out.”
“Well, my parents do that here if there’s a thun-”
“Because they can lose power for days, and if your bathtub’s filled with water at least you can use the water to flush the toilet. They really think of everything. – Well, nice to meet you!
The Witness at my door was just kid from cushy suburbia wanting to be Eminem.
