Sunday, June 29, 2008

People watching...not like bird watching, no binoculars...

This past Sunday the young women had the privilage, and i say privalege beause no other nice words come to mind, to sing in Sacrament meeting. We sang a beautiful song whose title escapes my mind, i was really into it, can you tell? The singing wasn't the fun part, we only have like 8 young women, but the best part was being able to watch the people in sacrment meeting. If i ever had a real hobby, other than tether ball, i would be a people watcher. I already plan on being one of those creepy old women who just sits on a bench somewhere and stares at people, but since i'm not old and creepy yet i have to wait a few years, it shouldn't take long! But any way, i saw some hilarious stuff while watching unsuspecting memebers. For starters, has anybody ever noticed how many little kids escape their parents by slipping under pews and rolling away? Alot! Another common thing is people who have their scriptures pu and to the naked eye look like their reading, but rather they are dead asleep and use the sacred scriptures as a ploy! It's a disgrace!
I just have to say that i love watching people, and i have had mnay opportunities to do so. Perhaps my favorite people watching moment would ahve to be when i was observing a 1st grade class for one of my classes. All of these little 6 and 7 year olds were sitting on the floor in front of the teacher for story time, the story was Dr. Seuss of course, what else do you read to 1st graders! Anyway, there were these two little boys sitting next to each other, one had a coat on because it was february and still a little cold. The boy not wearing the coat started digging around in his nose, for like a total of 5 minutes. I was enthralled, i have never seen a finger go up so far! Anyway, after about 5 minuetes he finally found what he was looking for and pulled it out. I leaned closer to examine it, the boogfer was the size of my big toe, i swear, no wonder he picked his nose! So this boy, being very proper, doesnt eat the booger like i expected. Instead he looks around for somplace to plop the booger down. He quickly zeroed in on the boy next to him wearing the big coat. The booger boy then, very slyly i might add, wiped his booger finger on the boys coat while looking away. This si all going on during story time in a first garde class. That moment made my top five most hilarious moments list, it is a very extensive list.

6 comments:

Lizzy Meppen said...

Sorry for all of the spelling errors!

Heidi said...

One of my favorite callings is leading the music in Sacrament Meeting so I can watch everyone in the ward... there are always the ones you can count on to fall asleep and the game is to figure out ahead of time at what point in the meeting they will fall asleep and then see how close you get. If you are Uncle Craig and in the Bishopric, you can also sketch people on your program. He's brought home some real works of art!

Unknown said...

The other day when we were with some of the other people in the program, and trying to figure out what to do for the rest of the day, Charles suggested finding a good bench and doing some Russian people watching. Nobody else went for it! lame. You're a good story teller.

Birches said...

Just because you're not old, doesn't mean you can't be creepy!

Aaron

mightymuffin said...

People watching isn't a hobby...it's a lifestyle.

Jeff said...

It's amazing what you can see from the front of the church. Isn't it? Most of my best memories from the bishopric was watching the people in the ward.