Monday night we were heading to Chili’s for dinner with the whole family and got into a discussion about snow cone shacks and how much money they make and if it is a good business or not. Sam had a good idea that made me laugh and not having my cell phone to write it down I borrowed Grant’s and attempted to text myself his idea. This is the text I thought I sent to myself:
“Why don’t we just set up an outhouse and cut a hole in the door and make it a snow cone shack! We could call it “Outhouse Ice”!
About an hour later as we were sitting at dinner, Grant who was checking his texts often due to a serious accident that occurred involving a seven year old boy whose life hung in the balance, handed me his phone with a questioning look.
I didn’t even have to look to realize what I had done. I had sent Sam’s quote to a member of the ward council, not to myself! And then I had a sinking feeling that in this serious time for our ward, maybe I had sent the message to the whole ward council!?! I hadn’t, but I had to do some explaining right away, especially because I had not prefaced the text with anything like, “Sam said”… or “While we were in the car tonight we had the following discussion”… it was just some harebrained idea sent from the Bishop to a member of the ward!
And so I sent the following explanatory text:
“I’m sorry, this is Candice here, I was trying to text myself this funny thing that Sam said so I can write it in our kid’s quote book. I didn’t mean to send this to you. I’m just glad it didn’t go to the whole ward council!”
Jeremy’s wife responded:
“This is Laura now. I want to hear the rest of it!” To which we replied:
“Just an entrepreneurial brainstorm amongst our children. More at our next visiting teaching appointment!”
How grateful I am for a patient husband, witty children and friends with a sense of humor!
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