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Hitchhiker

This morning as I strolled down Sunshine Boulevard on my way to work, a young man was walking down the other side of the road in the same direction I was traveling. As I got closer, I noticed the universal sign for needing a lift: the old thumb sticking out into the street, sign. Maybe he was a high-schooler who missed his bus and his parents both work and had already left.

I did not stop. You always hear that you should not pick up hitchhikers these days. They could be dangerous. But I ran through a few scenarios in my head the rest of the way to work.

-What if he pulled a knife out and told me to give him his wallet? This scenario gave me little trouble solving. After all, I am the one driving, what is he going to do, cut me? I'll make sure to wrap my car around a telephone pole, or drive off into a canal, leaving the passenger side in the water. Of course, I'd only tell him I would do these things, not necessarily do them. While I'm driving, I am in control of what is going on in the car. He would want money, he's not looking to die today.

-What if he pulled a gun on me? This is almost the same idea. He wants money or the car, but I'm driving. If I'm not driving, I would start. What is he going to do, shoot me at 45 - 50 miles per hour? He probably wouldn't make it. I just need to be sure he understands that. Also, I failed to mention that I have a couple of knife options in my car... both pocket knifes, but not both in my pocket. Maybe when reaching for my wallet, I pick the wrong pocket.

-What if he did these things before he got in? Simple, keep the car in gear. Sense danger? Flee. My car is faster than his knife, and the odds of an untrained person hitting me inside my moving vehicle? Not good. Besides those to points, my driver window doesn't work, so he would either be at my passenger window or open the passenger door... which would be better because as I drove off all quick and stuff it would make him jump out of his skin.

-So, what could go wrong? A lot. I thought about being in his shoes to determine what could go wrong, and there are a few things. First of all, if I was going to do this, I'd probably make a cut to prove I was serious. Second, the emergency brake of the car is in the center, I can easily stop the car if anything happened to the driver. Thirdly, the driver has to stop eventually. Finally, if I had the gun, the driver would probably not be able to think clearly, so I'd actually be in control. So had the hitchhiker thought of these things while I was driving, everything could have happened completely differently.

What will I do next time? I'm not sure. This guy looked like he just missed the bus. If I was doing this morning over again, I think I would stop, ask where he needed to be, let him know I'm on my way to work and can only drop him off somewhere that is on my way, and then... if he meets all the requirements, I'd give him a lift. I may have unknowing completely ignored an Angel! (Hebrews 13:1-2)

What would you do? Comment below, like everybody else.

Lake Quinn, PA

"Welcome to Lake Quinn. A private lake community in South Canaan, Pennsylvania."

I just discovered this morning that the lake community that my grandparents live in and that I used to visit often when I was but a child growing up in Pennsylvania, has a website (said website). I have many memories around that Lake Quinn. Had friends that Steve and I played with, went out in row boats, flipped a sailboat, lost glasses, lost fishing rods, caught frogs, found clay, built roadways in a sandbox that doubled as a cat litter box. Although my memory isn't exactly perfect, one thing I remember that was awesome was the COW FLOP.

Lake Quinn has a field across the street from my grandparents house, that is owned by my grandparents and their neighbors. If you look real hard at the aerial, you can almost kinda see the field. In this field, once a year, men (manly men) took paint and painted squares in part of the field. In one of these squares a borrowed cow would (for lack of a better word) poop. People put money down on one of the squares of their choice, and that is the excitement. Of course there were other activities to do as you waited on the digestion system of the cow, but the main even (to me, at least) was the cow. Plus, I was to young to gamble on darts and the other raffles and things and normally just road my bike around on the dirt road with Steve and then came back in time for the thrilling bathroom break of the cow.

It turns out that they stopped the cow flop several years ago, because they couldn't get people to help out with the festivities. As I expressed my disappointment to a coworker, he said that I should hold a cow flop in my area... and so began my thinking. How awesome would a "block party" be with all the activities centering around my yard, painted up with squares and a cow tied up in the center, walking around, eating grass and finally, relieving itself in the square? All proceeds will go to a non-profit organization. It would be awesome.

There could be prizes and games. I could cook up hundreds of hot dogs on the grill, while we wait in anticipation. All the neighbors we would reach would be incredible. Now, I have not looked into the permits and legality of all of this yet, but I'm just throwing the idea out there.

Would you go? Would you put a dollar on a square or two? Would you be able to eat a hot dog so close to cow poop?

Let me know, maybe this time next year I will be blogging about how the first annual Lehigh Acres community cow flow went.

Shark

How neato is this... thing. You can get it at Patch Together. If you are looking for something to get John boy for Christmas, well, you don't have to look any farther. This shark is 7 foot tall. Free USA ground shipping! It is so cool. It's like a 30 pound sleeping bag, or a giant shark pillow, or an awesome photo opportunity. Our new kitten would love it. We could have videos of little Misty coming out of the belly of a shark. So much fun.

There is nothing like this on Amazon. That's a shame.

Another Idea Without A Patent

Sometimes a genius idea pops into my head and instead of taking the idea and using it for my own obvious financial gain, I choose to share the ideas to everyone else and let them take the idea and run with it. This idea is so simple yet so spiffy that I am going to pause a moment to see if it has already been acted on...

No, can not find it online. Wonder if that means it isn't that great an idea or if it is one of those once-in-a-lifetime ideas. I'll let you decide. Here it is.

It would be a fairly short, small, paperback book that contains short stories of the reactions of people in the Bible to God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. For example, Job 42:1-6 where Job stands in awe of the Glory of God revealed to him by God himself in a storm. So it would be the actual text of Job 42:1-6.

Or Mathew 8:27 and the verses before and after to keep it in context. Where the disciples, who feared for their lives, looked at Jesus and were amazed by his ability to control the wind and the waves.

There is a ton of verses in the Bible that tell of what happened to mere men when God was revealed to them. Some fall to the ground, some go literally blind, some get off their mats and run and dance, some faces shone like the sun, some were cured of life-long diseases. All of them were affected much more than we seem to be today. These days, it seems that when we see the hand of God at work we simply breathe a thankful prayer and go on with our lives.

Imagine making it a monthly or even yearly goal to read the new book (coming soon, maybe) Mere Men Meet Maker - short stories of men in the Bible meeting God Almighty (or some other catchy title) and asking ourselves why we do not react the same way though we are always in the presence of God and have His Spirit dwelling in us.