A few notes and CrapCam photos from Kansas City.
Note #1: When having a progressively more irritating cough for two days before you get on a plane, do not get on the plane without taking enough antibiotics to kill anything that comes into your immune system.
Otherwise you end up like me right now, coughing like crazy with sinuses trying to make an unauthorized exit through the front of my skull. Not fun.
Photo #1: My dad and Ray Ann’s uncle Steve at the dinner for out of town guests friday night:
I did not think there could possibly be two people crazy enough to buy that ugly shirt. Clearly, I was wrong.
Dad’s recently developed a habit of buying some incredibly ugly shirts, and the shirt he wore the next night (with Ray Ann’s matching outfit) didn’t help.
They learned their lesson on asking me for my honest opinion when I told them that they looked like a pack of easter egg dye blew up on them. There is no photo of that, because I don’t want y’all to go blind.
Note #2: When going to a bar or bat mitzvah, make sure you find out in advance what branch of Judaism the Jews in question belong to (Reform, Conservative, or Orthodox).
I got quite the nasty surprise when I went to what I thought was a 1-hour Reform service and ended up at a 3-hour Conservative service, coughing my head off in front of my stepsister’s family’s congregation.
Photo #2: Ah, the Jews and their humor:
Outside Temple Beth Shalom, Kansas City, Missouri.
Note #3: We stayed in Overland Park, Kansas, not far from where my stepsister lives and even closer to the world headquarters of the Sprint Nextel corporation.
On behalf of myself and everyone else who’s ever had to deal with their spectacularly shitty customer service, I ceremoniously flipped them off as we drove by.
And my Sprint phone, for some reason, refused to take a picture of it. Funny, that…
Overland Park, huh? I’ve been there. There is just about ZILCH to do.
oh, and i’ve gotten lured into Conservative Jewish barmitzvahs, too. you clearly haven’t been to one in awhile or you would have known to bring a pad of paper and a pen for Hangman.
Must be that your dad no longer fits into his bellbottoms and sheepskin coat. Otherwise, he’d never have worn that shirt.
I think Ray Ann confiscated and burned the bell bottoms when they got married. He still has the sheepskin coat, but it was too warm. Otherwise, he would have worn that shirt WITH the sheepskin coat.