Lompoc Love

Last night it is my opinion that we were the loudest table of the bunch sitting outside at the Lompoc. There was much laughter and it was a lot of fun. Bob had a life-long dream recently realized of meeting Rowdy Roddy Piper at the gym he goes to (and despite explicit warnings from James of favoring people because of their wealth or status, he is going to pray that Roddy comes to church, to which I believe Dan replied, "That's fine we'll (speaking of Hawthorne) get the Iron Sheik!), Dan told a funny story about a mover who tried to pick fights in the bar with the largest man around after 10 or so drinks, and Chris told his story of flipping over his handle-bars earlier in the day (i guess that wasn't really funny), but it was a good night of laughs.

In fact, near the end of the night, a young woman came over out of curiosity to see who we were. She said, "hey, i'm just curious, do you guys all work together or something? It's just rare that I see this many guys just hanging out (i think she was insinuating that it was odd there were no women with us). But then she said before we could answer, "But what place employs all men, I just can't figure this out." So Tom told her that we were a part of the same church community. She looked surprised, "and you hang out at the pub together? Where do you meet?" Tom told her that we met at the Lucky Lab Pub on Sunday mornings. "So, let me get this straight, you meet at a pub for church? And you hang out at a pub on Monday night and have some beer together?" Yup, that's right. She responded with a pleasant surprise and told us she was from Alabama and has never imagined church being like this. She asked where we met and told us she wanted to check it out. I love the fact that as "church men" or rather as the Horsebrass pub used to call us, "church boys" we can hang out at a pub, have the most fun and the most laughs out of anyone and confuse people like crazy because of it. Truly a lot of fun.