Schrope

Ok, so you know how you have to type the word you see in the screen before you can comment on a blog, or buy tickets online, or post things on facebook, etc etc?

Well I have always wondered if they were real words.

I left a comment on Amy's blog tonight and my word was "schrope".

After typing it into Google I learned that many people have Schrope as a last name. How unfortunate since the only working definition I could find was from urban dictionary:

Urban Dictionary: schrope

schrope - 1 definition - to be sexually penetrated in both ears simultaneously.

Dodging Bullets With Religion

Today Nathan and I had to make a quick stop at our local grocery store on the way home from work. Just after entering the store a young man wearing a MasterCard lanyard and cuddling a clipboard approached us and began to speak very quickly. He was Asian, and sounded very Asian. And spoke so, so fast. But all in all we decided that he wanted us to sign up for a credit card and earn 25 000 extra - Save On? Air miles? MasterCard? points. Here is the conversation:

MC lanyard guy: [very fast something, mumble] free to sign up, [fast and faster] 25 000 points, [probably something sly in another language just to mock us and entertain himself at work] you can use it -

Nathan (interrupting): So is this a credit card?

MC lanyard guy: Yes.

Nathan: Oh, well I'm afraid we are not interested then. Part of our religious beliefs are against the use of credit cards, so we do not use them.

MC lanyard guy: I see, well you can simply destroy the card and take the points.

Nathan: No, no - I just do not wish to have a credit card.

MC lanyard guy: No one would have to know, you could just use the points.

Nathan: I would know.

I must add that this was not an easy conversation to straight face my way through. But that seemed to be enough for MC lanyard guy and Nath and I continued on with our shopping. HOWEVER... MC lanyard guy proceeded to find us at the checkout. Conversation: (I am paying for groceries, Nath is standing right beside me)

MC lanyard guy: So I am just curious, what faith do you practice?

Nathan (such a quick thinker...): Uhh, oh we are Jehovah's Witnesses.

MC lanyard guy: Ohhh, are those the guys who go door-to-door?

Nathan: Yeah, some of us do.

MC lanyard guy: Wow, I totally didn't know that you guys don't believe in using credit cards.

Nathan: Yeah, not many people do.

MC lanyard guy: Interesting.

Conversation comes to an end.
I pay for groceries with my Visa, sign, and we leave.

Making Friends

Tonight, dinner at the parents, Jake had a friend over.

Me: "So Bradley, how did you and Jake meet?"

Bradley: "He punched me in the face during a hockey game."

Enough said, really.

Young Man

The other day I stopped by Nathan's class to pick up a set of keys. I popped my head in the door, Nath introduced me to the class, I said hello, eye-flirted with my sexy working man, took the keys and was on my way.

Nathan tells me that night at home that when I left, a more "charismatic" one of his grade 6 students asked him if I was REALLY his wife. "Yes she is REALLY my wife." The student proceeded to stand up out of his chair, straighten his posture and reply, "Young man, you have excellent taste".

Grade sixers make me feel good.