Me, a Priest? :confused:

[kelric]

I went out to run errands this morning, including getting my hair cut. For the last 5 years or so I've gone to this small neighborhood old-style hole-in-the-wall type barber shop, but a month or so ago they lost the lease on the shop around the corner from my house and moved.

First thing, their new shop is shared with a "salon", apparently a pretty popular one among elderly ladies (it had been next door to the old barber shop - apparently they both couldn't renew the lease and so moved in together). Now this was a little bit of culture-shock... going from a small, quiet shop with maybe 4 or 5 guys present (including the barbers) at once to a much larger shop filled with people (mostly women) talking up a storm. But at least the barber was the same guy I've been going to for years (an elderly guy who's been a barber for years), so I knew I was in the right place, anyway. Then, as a greeting, the following exchange...

Barber (motioning for me to sit in the chair): "Hi, how are you?"

Me (sitting down): "Good, thanks. How are you?"

Barber: "Good. So when do you get ordained?"

Me:

Me: "Uh..."

Barber: "Aren't you over at the seminary?"

Me (with nervous laugh): "Um, no, I think the boss would be unhappy about that." (yeah, a lame effort at a joke, I know)

Barber: "Oh."

So he cuts my hair, and as I'm getting up, he says, "I'm sorry I thought you were a priest... I guess it's just that you looked so angelic that I just assumed."

I made some lame joke about being called far worse, thanked him, and left. But just weird...

 

[white]

You look angelic? Evidence? =D

 

[white]

just went through the rest of your blog (sorry I was late, I seldom read these blogs ),

re: short stories: There's a thread of whatever's here that asked for folks to post up their favourite short stories, you can go read them when you have the time, or are procrastinating. *chuckles* They were all good reads.

re: exercise. Maybe you've built up muscle mass, and lost fat, so overall, the weight stayed the same? To lose weight you'd have to consume less calories than your output basically... But hey, being fitter is better than being thin yea? Keep it up! *cheerleading*

Do we get to see your short story too?

 

[miss fortune]

You're a priest, and didn't even know!

That sort of awkward situation always makes me laugh- like when I was at home once and someone at the gas station asked how my husband was

 

[INTJMom]

I agree with your barber.
In your photo, you sort of have that Irish Priest look.