In Eckleburg's Eyes - 6/27/2008

Thursday was another great day that I got to spend with my friends.

On Thursday morning at 9 am, my Bible Study met at church. It had been a long time since we had met. In fact, among other things we debriefed on the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed which we had seen on June 9th, seventeen days prior. The discussion was very good, though I honestly had forgotten a great deal about the film.

The present plan is to watch The Bucket List next Wednesday (July 2nd), in conjunction with CMU’s birthday and then review the film the following week. Anyone is welcome to attend. MLM is the only member of our group who has already seen the feature.

After class, I met SMA for lunch at McAlister’s Deli. He chose the restaurant due to its proximity to West Town Mall where he needed to run two errands.

First we went to Victoria Secret Pink. You read that correctly. It was my first time in the store. Hopefully it will mark my last. It seems WRK tore an item of clothing purchased from this store and SMA wanted to replace it. This was easier said than done.

Despite being a large store, we could find only one sales representative and she was busy with a long line at the register. When we finally did receive “help”, we quickly learned that the employees knew about as much as we did, which was nothing. They checked in the back to see if the item was new and had been put on the floor early. After much discussion, it was concluded that the item was out of stock. So we bought a substitute and left with this bag, which would become significant.

Our next stop was at Dillard’s as SMA needed new shoes and had twice found shoes he liked there. Though we were not entirely sure, we quickly learned that Dillard’s does still exist. The process of obtaining the shoes proved problematic as he had to try on the new shoes without his socks. It seems WRK had painted his right big toe (and only this toe) with magenta nail polish. So, we, two men, talked to a salesman carrying a lingerie bag, with a painted toenail. I am sure we made a great impression. These are the Sperry Top-Siders SMA bought. He would not allow me to take a photo of his painted toe so this is the next best thing.

I had to return home and allow the termite inspector from Orkin in the house. It turns out I knew him. He was Kent Fugate (KBF) who often refereed basketball games at my church in years past. His son-in-law RDA was an old teammate. RDA now works at Enterprise while being a part-time youth minister as Callahan Road Baptist Church. The church has plans of hiring him full-time. Though KBF misses sitting with his daughter at Parkway Baptist Church on Sundays, he is very proud of his son-in-law. RDA now is also the father of two sons.

The other good news is that the house does not have termites.

My Thursday night concluded as many had during the week - with MPW at Bearden High School for the Rocky Top Basketball League. This is the only Thursday night the league plays (the only three-game week) as they have condensed the season into three weeks. Having had quite a bit of basketball already this week, we opted to attend only the 7:30 game between teams sponsored by Ray’s ESG and Toyota of Knoxville. We picked a great game to watch. My thoughts are posted under a “View from 315A.”