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Verbatim conversation
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Mom
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Have you thought about what you're giving up for Lent Peter?
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Peter
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Yes, I'm giving up video games.
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Peter, you won't last 2 days
with that. Why set yourself up for failure? Pick something
that you can stick to.
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Peter
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[thinking] I'll give up ice cream.
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| Mom |
Now you've gone to the other extreme. We only have ice cream twice a month, so that's not giving up anything.
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Peter
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[thinking] I know, I'll quit picking my nose. [turning to his older sister] And Jane can give up biting her toe nails.
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I don't even do that anymore. I polish my toe nails now.
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HA! Gotta love Lent.// It shows us how feeble we are before Christ.
ReplyDeleteOur giving up of worldly pleasures, for a short period of time, hardly equates to the giving up of one's Perfect Life for all mankind. Lest we forget...God Bless us one and all. Joyce
The correct response is this:
ReplyDeletePeter Yes, I'm giving up video games.
Mom: Peter, you won't last 2 days with that. Why set yourself up for failure? Pick something that you can stick to.
Peter O ye of little faith...
Everyone laughed at my sister's roommate in college when she gave up elevators for lent. But when they realized that she lived on the 10th floor of the dormatory they stopped laughing.
ReplyDeleteShe stuck to it, she lost 14 lbs during lent and learned to be a lot more organized. When you only want to make two round trips per day you learn to plan ahead and take everything you need with you the first time.
By Easter she would join my roommate and I in our stairs races. She never won but she did better than anyone else who challenged us.
Her second year she had four other girls join her. They called it the "lenten stairs diet."
Great story David.
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