Tonight I worked at the local coffee shop and even though what I really wanted to do was sit at home and pretend to study, it was good to get out and serve some Joe. The kid who was working with me is a seventeen-year-old Evangelical Christian. He's found and been saved by Jesus and wants to share that. It's a pretty nice thing to see around here as oppose to the countless pregnant girls and crazy boys. We had a long conversation about his life and faith--amazing how open he was--and I added a few tidbits of "I'm 24 you're 17 so I'm older and wiser" knowledge to the talk, which I was sure to keep PG. It's hard to make a teenager understand the real ways of the world until they experience it themselves, but I appreciated his naivete nonetheless. It was refreshing actually. Consider that a good curve ball.
Well in the midst of my shift, I realized that I wasn't going to get out of there at 10:00 as expected. "Closing" means you stay at least an hour late. At least. I was trying to contrive ways to sneak out early, but then considering I was one of two employees there I knew that wouldn't happen too easily. Sooo around 11:30 we finally locked the front door and went our separate ways. Schnoz ball . . . I have a mega busy week ahead and could have used a little beauty sleep. Such is life.
Funny things were happening tonight that I couldn't help but laugh to myself about: Customers, weird random coffee shop jokes, meeting a girl from Michigan who's in love with Suh and was wearing his Lions jersey . . . we exchanged numbers naturally. Anyway, as I was washing my hands I saw this taped to the wall:
If you look closely you'll see that this was created by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, my alma mater. Ahhh the little things. It was nice to end the evening with a great connection to a curve ball. And now? Snugglefest 2011 with Georgeman. Booyah.
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