In one of my earlier entries, I said I would write about some funny stories from my Sunday altered ego.
With a large of population of people with Irish ancestry in Boston, often times there would be bagpipers at funerals. I overheard this from a group of elderly men who were chatting after a regular Sunday church service. One of the men said, "I hate bagpipes. Please don't have bagpipes at my funeral. If there is, I am going to get up and leave."
Have you seen dogs at weddings? I have. Twice. And the dogs were part of the wedding party. They marched down the aisle along with the bridesmaids and groomsmen. Both times, the dogs were perfectly behaved -- the entire duration of the wedding. I was so amazed.
At a particular Christmas service, I was accompanying the cantor (ie, the song leader). I was playing out of a photocopy of some music, but I did not clip the paper securely on the music rack. The papers fell down, and I was frantically trying to keep the music going with one hand and savage the rest of the papers with another hand. This resulted in a few wrong notes. The cantor thought she skipped a verse, and said "ooops" loud enough for all to hear.
During the season of Advent, some churches have an "Advent wreath". It is a wreath made with green garlands, positioned horizontally, with 4 candles. Candles are lit according to the weeks in Advent. In churches that don't rotate which candle gets lit, candle no. 1 would then be lit for 4 weeks while candle no. 4 only lit for 1 week. At one particular church, moments before a service at the 4th week of Advent, candle no. 1 was burnt so low that the wreath caught on fire. While the congregation was stunned motionless, the custodian (a tall, large man) dashed down the center aisle with a fire extinguisher and doused the fire out.
I actually did not witness the event. I arrived at the church right after the service to practice, and found many members of the congregation were helping to clean the powder from the fire extinguisher off the pews.
With a large of population of people with Irish ancestry in Boston, often times there would be bagpipers at funerals. I overheard this from a group of elderly men who were chatting after a regular Sunday church service. One of the men said, "I hate bagpipes. Please don't have bagpipes at my funeral. If there is, I am going to get up and leave."
Have you seen dogs at weddings? I have. Twice. And the dogs were part of the wedding party. They marched down the aisle along with the bridesmaids and groomsmen. Both times, the dogs were perfectly behaved -- the entire duration of the wedding. I was so amazed.
At a particular Christmas service, I was accompanying the cantor (ie, the song leader). I was playing out of a photocopy of some music, but I did not clip the paper securely on the music rack. The papers fell down, and I was frantically trying to keep the music going with one hand and savage the rest of the papers with another hand. This resulted in a few wrong notes. The cantor thought she skipped a verse, and said "ooops" loud enough for all to hear.
During the season of Advent, some churches have an "Advent wreath". It is a wreath made with green garlands, positioned horizontally, with 4 candles. Candles are lit according to the weeks in Advent. In churches that don't rotate which candle gets lit, candle no. 1 would then be lit for 4 weeks while candle no. 4 only lit for 1 week. At one particular church, moments before a service at the 4th week of Advent, candle no. 1 was burnt so low that the wreath caught on fire. While the congregation was stunned motionless, the custodian (a tall, large man) dashed down the center aisle with a fire extinguisher and doused the fire out.
I actually did not witness the event. I arrived at the church right after the service to practice, and found many members of the congregation were helping to clean the powder from the fire extinguisher off the pews.
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