After being iced in and snowed under in North Carolina for two days, we were all getting hotel fever! We’d spent the better part of Saturday in what we called the “war room.” It was one of the hotel’s conference rooms but it could have served as a regional travel agency. We had several lap tops and cell phones constantly chirping, buzzing and beeping. This was all to try to get the Fresh Grounded Faith team out of the frozen tundra of North Carolina and back home safely! There we all sat with lukewarm coffee and waning hopes trying to book flights. Our team consisted of Shelley and John Jennings, our very talented worship leader and her great husband; Theresa Wiggins, our amazing FGF National Director; Angela Schmidt, our new assistant who continually impresses me; me and Phil; Connor, our fun-loving 11 year old and Abby Rike, a participant on the show The Biggest Loser-Season 8. We were quite a crew!
About 4:00, we had finally booked flights and rental cars and were ready to change the scenery. So, “Let’s go shopping” was the collective cry from the war room. “Yeah, and let’s buy something matching to wear so we’ll always remember this weekend!” We thought about gloves, socks and some unmentionables we could buy, and then settled on scarves. So, we piled in the rental car and slid across the ice to Target! Once inside, the girls went one way and the guys another. The girls all surrounded the shelf of scarves and began pulling them off their hooks for examination. “Oh, you would look good in this one,” Theresa would say. “I want the one that looks like tapestry,” said Shelley. Angela spotted a blue one and cried, “That’s my color!” “I’ll take which ever you guys don’t want,” I said, “I can’t see them anyway!” Abby spotted a bright green one and began to overflow with loud enthusiasm, “Oh, I want the green one. It would go great with my jacket. It’s such a great green!”
Everyone oohed and awed, as women do, expressing our affirmation. Our scarf collection would be complete as soon as Abby could wrap that bright green scarf that was as vibrant as her personality around her neck. But, before she could pull it from the rack, a hand shot from the side of the shelf and snagged it from right before our eyes! The clearly female, sweater draped arm came out of nowhere as if someone shot an arrow from a bow! That hand was attached to a very stealth and fast moving woman who disappeared into the sock section before we could even grasp what had just happened. “She took my scarf!” Abby squealed. “Where did she go?” one asked. Abby ran around the back of the shelf loudly inquiring about her green scarf but the woman was gone. She was gone with Abby’s green scarf.
We were incredulous. The thief knew we were just seconds from taking that scarf off the hook and draping it around Abby’s neck. There is no way she could not have known that scarf was spoken for. Believe me; the now green scarfed woman knew quite well that was Abby’s scarf—the people in the front of the store, in the McDonalds across the street and even the citizens in the neighboring state of South Carolina knew that scarf was spoken for because my new friend Abby isn’t the quiet, shy type! She was loud; we were all loud. And, after the theft, we were all loudly protesting and lamenting the loss of the green scarf there in the accessory department of Target! Evidently, the stealing stranger either really wanted to be in our club or just really needed that shade scarf.
Well, Abby settled for a lovely cream colored scarf trimmed in fringe. We all wore our scarves the rest of the weekend and wondered who that woman was. So, sister, if it’s you…may I remind you green is the color of envy and according to Kermit, “its not easy being green!”
That was a fun read this Friday morning! Thank you. Holy Hugs to you.
Posted by: IDOKLady | February 12, 2010 at 06:56 AM