Bargain argyle and my father-in-law
25 August 2010
Over the weekend, Old Navy had hoodies on sale for $8, so I scored an argyle hoodie for nearly half price. When I went to pay for it, I pulled out my argyle wallet. Which I could have pulled out of my argyle purse, but I didn’t use it that day because it didn’t match my outfit.
It’s possible I have a problem.
In other, non-argyle related news, tomorrow is my father-in-law’s birthday. I’m blogging about it because he reads my blog pretty regularly, and he’s the type of guy who’s so focused on serving others that he really might forget his own birthday.
I’ve known Bruce since I was in 8th grade. He was a youth coach at our church, and I was a student who had zero interest in going to youth group. But throughout the year, Bruce would seek me out after church, ask what was going on in my life, and let me know about upcoming activities in the youth group. I had a mad crush on his son, so it was basically all I could do to make eye contact.
Bruce making a point to talk to me has stuck in my mind over the years. It’s not like he’s one of those extreme extroverts who feels the need to chat up everybody within sight. He reaches out to people so often that it’s possible he’s gotten used to it, but I imagine at some point along the way, it stretched him. I know it would me.
I’m very grateful for him. If only he’d known that convincing his son to show some interest in me would’ve expedited the whole process.
Comments
Okay, I know I’m way late on reading this, but I was looking over your blog post titles and when I saw this one I thought “I can not even conjure up a picture in my mind of Bruce in argyle.” Thankfully all peace was restored when I saw they were different parts of the post. But as a side note, if you start an argyle support group, I should probably join too. I even have argyle underwear.
Posted by Jen McKinney on 22 September 2010
His son’s eyes were obviously opened eventually. ;-)
Happy birthday tomorrow, Bruce!
Posted by Roseanna White on 25 August 2010