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06-04-2006, 12:38 AM
|  | Mom of the Four Men | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Canada, sort of
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Hi again,we're in Georgia. Bet you didn't guess that.
Earlier this evening, I had to get out at a rest area and walk for a few minutes just to stretch my legs. When I got back to the car, the two youngest Horsemen had been playing with the radio. They were amazed to discover that in the part of northern Florida where we'd stopped, about half of the radio stations were religious, and many had those really dramatic revival-meetin' preachers. I also forgot that the boys have never heard anything like this before. I grew up around folks like that and it seems just ordinary to me, but apparently it fascinated the boys.
Today was a long drive, and when we finally crossed into Georgia, we were all ready to stop. We saw a bookstore still open, and all of us decided to get a book and just relax tonight. Unfortunately, as we pulled into the parking lot, the lady shut off the blinking 'open' sign and began wheeling in the sale books. The boys were all disappointed, especially #3 who wanted a book about cats, for some reason.
We're leaving early in the morning, so I asked if she'd be open tomorrow at all, and she replied that her store would open at 9 a.m. sharp. Beings as this is a town where every other telephone pole has a sign offering a free Bible and a phone number, I was worried that the bookstore mightn't be open until afternoon, but luckily for us, it will open.
Now, #3 is my quiet child. He usually has the sweetest personality, and most of the time, strangers cannot hear him because he is so mild and quiet. However, just for tonight, as soon as the lady said that she'd be open tomorrow morning, #3 exclaimed,"Heathen! Sinner! You're going to hell (say it with the requisite three syllables) for opening your store on the Lord's Day!" 
I almost fainted. #3 never talks! #3 is funny, sometimes hysterically so, but no one outside our family ever hears him make a joke. Why on earth he decided to repeat an evangelical radio sermon word for word, accent included at no extra charge, is beyond me! I am still in shock even writing about it.
After a stunned silence, his brothers began just howling (they knew where he'd gotten it) and the lady looked like someone hit her upside the head with a stick. I just wanted to lay down in the road in the hope that someone would run over me. I apologized to the nice lady at the bookstore and drove off. I think I am the one going to hell. 
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06-04-2006, 01:02 AM
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06-04-2006, 01:03 AM
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06-04-2006, 09:40 AM
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 Oh, my! That's so funnY!
I've got one of those quiet types, too. Now I am scared!
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06-04-2006, 02:36 PM
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 Oh, dear!
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06-04-2006, 07:59 PM
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06-04-2006, 08:45 PM
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He's your son alright. 
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06-04-2006, 10:05 PM
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Poor #3. I should have explained that this is one of the Asperger quirks- being able to quote something he's heard only once, and usually at just the wrong time. He was amazed to discover that we didn't all think it was funny. Ok, so maybe we did, but some of us tried really hard not to laugh until after the Stern Lecture. |
06-04-2006, 10:10 PM
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And after I posted this, I had to go down to the office for an extra pillow. A different lady was at the desk, and she said in her very best Firm Grandma voice,"Do you want a wakeup call so you can get up early and go to church?"
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06-04-2006, 10:13 PM
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06-05-2006, 02:18 AM
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Oh, my. How do you find these people?
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06-05-2006, 06:22 AM
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I gave birth to most of them! |
06-06-2006, 10:37 PM
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06-07-2006, 10:18 AM
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06-08-2006, 10:33 AM
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Sigh. He was cuing, apparently. I spoke with my SIL who also has an Asperger's child. Her thought is that since #3 heard that exact conversation on the radio, when the lady said she'd be open on Sunday, he repeated exactly what the radio preacher said that Jesus would have said to a sinner working on Sunday when she gave the cue, which was her side of the conversation. I am just grateful that she didn't mention it if she had any plans involving fornication! 
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