Saturday, April 18, 2009

A comic misunderstanding

After seeing the Sistine Chapel, on the way back to meet up with Louise and Daniel, Harold and Annie stopped at one of the many Vatican gift shops, this one an upscale boutique with expensive jeweled crosses, rosaries and other baubles.  Annie was looking intently into a glass case filled with 400-euro rosaries, and said she thought we should get something to bring home to Bonnie, her Dad's companion.  "Is Bonnie Catholic?" Harold asked.  "Well, she was brought up Catholic, but now she's doing medication," Annie responded.  "Medication?"  Harold asked, amazed.  "I've heard of 'recovering Catholics,' but there's medication for it?"  "Not medication, Uncle Harold," Annie responded.  "Meditation!  She does meditation instead of going to church!"  We laughed so hard the clerk gave us a very dirty look and we walked away from the shop, repeating "medication/meditation" and poking each other in glee.

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