Since it was relatively warm and dry today, I decided I would head out to get some of the things I need to run my first youth group event in January -- "The Amazing Race!" I have them doing some very interesting challenges to earn their next clues, so I made up my shopping list. As I was walking out the door, the pastor offered to take me by car, so I took him up on it.
I showed him my shopping list: 10 jars of baby food prunes, 500 cotton balls, 5 large tubs of Vaseline and 10 flashlights. Despite the list, he agreed to go to the dollar store with me, where I found everything except the Vaseline. He suggested we go next door to a drug store for the Vaseline, where I loaded up our cart with five large tubs of it (the kids have to slather their faces in Vaseline and stick cottonballs on it to make a Biblical-looking beard). As we were getting close to the checkout, he decided he wanted chocolate for his confreres, so he threw a giant Toblerone, a couple of boxes of Pot of Gold, and a box of Turtles into the cart also.
I laughed and had to walk away from the checkout when the cashier's eyebrows went up and her expression said it all: "What the heck are these two going to do with four boxes of chocolate and five extra large tubs of Vaseline?"
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