I'm noticing a pattern

I don't know if this should be cause for alarm, but, inspired by my immature behavior earlier last week (see previous post), I did something equally as immature on Friday.

Each year around this time, I attend a communion service with many other pastors and their wives. After the service, we share a meal at a local restaurant.

This year, a good friend of mine, who is also a pastor, hosted the service at his church. He shared the message and lead the communion service. Afterward, he sat next to my wife and I at "The Village," a local restaurant.

After the meal, as my wife and I were loading our kids into our van, I realized that this friend was parked next to me. Feeling mischievous, I took my meal receipt out of my pocket and scribbled the message you can read in the picture above. (He scanned it and posted it online... so I jipped it).

I didn't know this ahead of time, but apparently, he has a history of getting parking tickets, so this all seemed plausible to him. Once he read the "citation," he walked back in to the restaurant and became quite angry. According to his account of the story, this is what happened next....

Friend to Waitress: What is this? I just ate here. You saw me in your restaurant. I'm a customer. I wasn't illegally parked.

Waitress: Hmmm, let me see this. I don't think our manager wrote this. I'm pretty certain he can't spell "citation."

At that point, they walked into the kitchen and showed the "citation" to the manager.

Manager: This isn't from us. I think your friends are messing with you.

Manager & Waitress: Ha, ha.

Minutes later I received a call on my cell phone.

Me: Hello

Friend: I'm going to kill you.

If you would like to read the other side of this story, you may do so by clicking here. He chose to blog about it on his church's MySpace.