Crazy Date Night

Cheryl and I had a pretty crazy date night last evening.  Jeannie graciously provided care for our children while we decided to go to Stony Point mall where we could sit at a small table on the patio drinking something from Starbucks and catching up from our rather hectic week.

While Cheryl was in Starbucks getting our drinks and I was on the phone with Mary Beth helping her pick out a good webcam and ran into Dennis & Monica Norwood.  As soon as Cheryl came out with our drinks and I finished helping Mary Beth, I see a text message from Pierre asking me if I’m enjoying my Starbucks.  He appears a few minutes later with his wife to chat for a bit about their evening.  Within a few minutes after they left us, I look up and see Rachel Yeatts and Abi McCamant walking past us.  Before long we had Chris and Steve with all the children surrounding us…it was great to see our friends again.

So here’s where it gets crazy…

For the next hour we talked about the past week and how we were each handling some of our questions about where God has us right now. Around 9:45, the mall was pretty much dead. Where we were sitting, the only people I noticed at all were a group of teenagers at a table inside Chipotle. Suddenly, this guy comes walking across the middle of the mall area talking way too loud on his cell phone. He’s carrying a rather large picture frame box that appears to be empty by the way he was swinging it back and forth as he strolled along. He sees us and immediately changes direction toward us.  He walks right up to the table 5 feet from us, places his box on that table, waves at me, and continues to talk loudly on his cell phone.

Here’s where I get annoyed…

I gave him about 10 seconds, realized that it was time to go anyway, looked at Cheryl and told her we needed to go. As we began to walk away, I can hear the guy still talking and following us. At this point, I’m thinking I may have to confront him and deal with his rather rude behavior. Fortunately, I hear him begin to trail off in the direction of Chipotle. I hear in his conversation that his cell must have dropped the call. I turn to verify he truly is going in a different direction only to see that he’s still looking right at me. As he is entering Chipotle, he points at me and says, “Looks like deity.”

What did he say…

I looked at Cheryl and asked her, “What did he say?” She confirmed what I thought I had heard. In hindsight, I would probably have gone back to him to ask what he meant. I just remember being highly annoyed at the moment and could think of nothing but going home.