February 20, 2013
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Sometimes I Embarrass Myself!
Thursday, February 14
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Cerwin and I decided to go to a local restaurant, and made reservations for 5:00 p.m.
As we drove into the parking lot, several other cars were arriving and people were walking toward the restaurant.
I thought to myself, “We better hurry so we can get ahead of some of these people.” Now, how awful is that? I am walking on the same earth as these people. What made me think that I am more important than them?
And we had reservations!
Nobody else knew what I was thinking – and I did not push my way ahead of anybody. As I “moved rather quickly” toward the door, my senses returned to me, and I said to myself, “Doris, get a grip, slow down.”
About that time I noticed another couple arriving at the door - and she was walking with a cane. I “kindly” opened the door, and invited them to go ahead of us. (I told you, my senses had returned to me.)
She smiled and said, “Thank you.” As he looked at me and said, “Thank you.” I recognized them as the parents of Scott Weidner, the President and CEO of Transport For Christ. I thought to myself, “I am glad I was nice to them.”
They recognized us about the same time and we exchanged greetings as we walked up to the hostess.
The hostess said to Mr. Weidner, “Table for two?”
He said, “Yes”, and then looked at us and said, “Would you like to sit with us?”
We agreed that we would enjoy eating supper with them, and asked the hostess if our reserved table had room for four.
Our table did have room for four, and we had the most delightful evening. As you know, I rarely go anywhere without a camera, but on this night I figured that I did not need it, so these photos were taken with Cerwin’s cell phone.
To honor Valentine’s Day, these ladies walked through the restaurant singing old love songs – barbershop-quartet-style.
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Despite my earlier attitude, God blessed us with a wonderful evening.
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Comments (5)
If I could eat all the words I should never have said and the thoughts I should never have thought, I would never be hungry again ~ the singing sounds fun ~
@fwren - …and this is not the first time I’ve had a bad attitude.
You may be interested in the suet recipes I just got a few moments ago from a blog friend, “Bluebird Chris.” She posted them as a reply to my post last night. “Before and After the Snow.
Thank you for your wonderful example. Glad you had a nice dinner!
@purpleamethyst76 - I’m glad you think that this was a good example.
Aaaww that’s a really sweet way for god to reward your change of attitude! Aren’t you so glad you didn’t stay in the other mindset? You had such a nice evening!happy for you