Today it’s clear and 75…I wonder for how much longer this rare October weather will last?

I went to mass yesterday and had sort of an amusing experience. They don’t really sing a closing hymn here (or at least not at this church) so everyone just kind of leaves all at once (usually when the closing hymn starts people begin to trickle out, at least in any American church I’ve been to). There is only one small little bedroom sized door for everyone to leave through and mass was pretty packed last night, so it took a while to get out. I don’t know why it was so packed, but normally it isn’t that busy.

I sat closer to the front because I got there only a few minutes before it started, and of course the back always fills up first. So I’m very slowly walking out (it’s the mass of the elderly, so naturally they walk slow, and then they see their friends in the aisle and stop traffic to talk with them). Well apparently I wasn’t going fast enough for this one elderly lady behind me because she started, like, shoving me forward when really there was nowhere to go. I guess she was in a hurry, but I wasn’t going to shove or breeze past someone else (how rude is that?!). When we got closer to the door I kinda turned a bit to look at her and she was muttering something under her breath to a friend.

I started walking home and at first I was annoyed, I mean who pushes people in the House of God? But then I thought about it and thought it was funny: here’s this old lady shoving me (and others in the past perhaps) to get out faster. Generally you would see a little kid pushing their way through. And someone would probably (maybe!) reprimand them (I would hope!), but what can anyone say to an old lady? Maybe when she was little her mom never taught pushing people is rude…?

Xoxo,

Court