When I worked as a church administrator part of my job was doing the weekly notices. I have to say I was rather good at that. Meaning I had fun making them entertaining. So when we began to do a weekly powerpoint presentation of the notices during the Sunday service I was in my element.
I can safely say that, for some people, my notices were the highlight of the week. And my own personal highlight was when I included an photo of a urinal painted with the face of Jesus. For no reason except it amused me.
On reflection that might have been the beginning of my end as church administrator. Let's say they didn't need much of an excuse to get rid of me.
Sadly the photo no longer seems to be on the internet but I did find this one.
I was finding life a little stressful this morning. Just little things - needing to phone the vet to make an appointment for George's check-up and finding my phone unable to make voice calls. Then remembering it had been like that for a while. I'd gone online to try and sort it out but got bogged down in the mire of passwords and pins so had given up. Then this morning borrowing Husband's phone to make the call and it being soundless. Waiting for Husband to finish his Fortnite game to come and sort it out. Him remembering he'd left his headphones switched on so the phone was still connected. You get the picture. Nothing huge, but all enough to get me grinding my teeth.
Anyway, finally got through to very nice Talkmobile man who reassured we were going to get this all sorted and I wasn't to worry. In spite of my, "Um I don't know what sort of phone it is, how do I find out?' and "Where will I find that?" and "How do I do that?"
Eventually he said, "Okay, I'm going to put you on hold for three minutes at the most while I work this out." Then he came back and it was all sorted! Yay!
Much calmer now even though I have only done two of the things on my Nine Things To Do list. Actually my lists didn't include phoning Talkmobile so I could say I've done of three of ten things, which I think sounds better. It's okay to add items retrospectively isn't it?
3 comments:
Humour is a tricky thing, isn't it? I would have liked your Jesus urinal meme, I'm sure. I bet Jesus would have too. I'm convinced he has a better sense of humour than many of his followers.
He must have or he wouldn't have worn a beard. Most men looking wildly comical with facial hair.
A workplace I was in years ago had a regular Did you know feature written by
(forced) staff contributions for the board. Our temptation to enter very irreverent stuff for these uptight affluent white ladies was close to irresistible. But we needed our jobs.
If you pre-empt your list you get double points, I think.
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