soooo i had a bit of an oops moment on the third morning of the fest… shane [anti-war, pacifist] was leading morning prayer from the main stage with another dude and a crowd of people were participating and someone asked me if i’d make him a coffee so i went to base camp and grabbed the blue thermos mug we had taken from the office to use at the fest – when i took the coffee he was busy leading the prayer and so i motioned to him and set the mug on the edge of the stage…
[time passes]
lying in E-beth’s hammock vibing a bit later and shane comes up to me – “do you know what this stands for?” and holds up the coffee mug with the letters NRA boldly on the side and i instantly have flashbacks to the michael moore ‘bowling for columbine’ documentary charlton heston interview and sheepishly answer “National Rifle Association?” and he responds with “yup, at first i thort you were playing a joke on me and then i figured you probly didn’t know what it had meant.”
i hadn’t. to me it was a cool blue mug with three letters on it. wow, spot the irony. cool that he thort it was quite funny though.
when he asked me where i got it and i said “our house” [which wasn’t true altho i thort it was, val reminded me later that we picked it up at the simple way office, much better] he responded with “someone must be trying to set me up” all still in a jokey vibey mood.
that was one of the moments of the festival, harr, and it’s great to have an ongoing private joke with shane…
Posted by Irresistibly Fish on June 27, 2011 at 11:51 am
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Posted by DaveG on June 27, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Hoot!
At least it wasn’t an International Wiccans Association mug (if you get such a thing!)
Posted by Laurence on June 28, 2011 at 3:30 pm
I think the Wiccans would be better than rifle association. But funny nonetheless that it found it’s way to there..