Church Chumminess

It was Palm Sunday (much to our ignorance) and we'd forgotten mum's intention to head to church, until about 6am where we were still midway watching the introduction miniseries for the reimagined Battlestar Galactica and the Wrath Of Mother descended upon us with a Didn't I Tell You That We Are Going To Church Today?

Sigh. We've lost touch with the church already. One thing about churches, is that they're all about fellowship and communion and reinforcing each other in the faith. We're not very keen on this and to make it even better we've lost touch with so many people there that, while we do remember faces, names are totally another issue.

And what more, a fair number of people still remember our name!

Well this partly due to mum, 'cos they'll go, "Hello, [Janvier], how are you?" to which we will respond, then they will follow up with a, "So where's Mummy?" to which we would point out in some general direction and then flee when they turn their heads to look.

It helps that in our society, we can still partly get away by calling the adults 'Uncle' and 'Aunty' 'tho if done in the presence of mum we would get a chiding later on to call them by their names, 'Aunty So-and-so'. Of course, if we'd knew or remembered that name there, we wouldn't just call them 'Uncle/Aunty'...

Then again, we're not so young anymore that we can get away with calling everyone older than us 'Uncle/Aunty'. So comes the Discreet Identity Elicitation Technique (DIET) to get away with it, although we think what we need to have done is run straight to the church office and grab the church member directory and run through the list of names to work our rusty memory.

What we do find interesting is that church members can still be so friendly, although we think we're getting better now that we've cut all conversations with everyone to under a couple of minute, once they've run through the 'Hi, how are you, are you here with your mum, where are you working now, it's good to see you, haven't seen you in church for a long time, hope to see you more often' formula.

Thankfully the rest of the day was spent sleeping the entire ordeal off till suppertime.