Had to stay in Kenner last night (for reasons I'll get to in a second) and i somehow managed to pack a change of clothes but not get said clothes into my car.
I, of course, didn't realize this until I got to work yesterday. So when I got to Kenner, i had to go to the mall to buy underwear, socks and a shirt for work today (i'm wearing the same pants).
I decided i needed to buy camouflage underwear since the really really ugly pair of boxers i wanted weren't the right size.
and now you know.
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So i was in Kenner for a wake last night -- Courtney's great-aunt's mother. (Obviously great-aunt by marriage, otherwise it would have been courtney's great-grandmother).I was out in the lobby of the funeral home and there was obviously something going on in one of the other parlors (everybody was standing really still and fig-leafing it). A few minutes later a group of four or five men walked out of the parlor wearing ornamental oversized-bib looking things around their waist. The cloth was about the size of a large dinner napkin and it was held in place by cord-type belt.
most of the bib/apron things were solid white, but one or two of the men had designs on theirs (in UCLA blue/gold colors). one or two of the guys were also holding small glass containers that could have held liquids or possibly were used for candles. One of the men had sort of long hair and a mustache and looked like Yanni.
One of the men said something to the others that i didn't understand, but i'm not sure if it was a foreign language or just Y'at. but he then clearly said "well done. good job, guys" which led me to believe that the first exchange really was in a foreign language.
i watched for any secret handshake looking thing when they parted company, but didn't notice any. Of course, secret hand shakes are probably more subtle than, say, a high five and a butt drag.
So does anybody have any idea who these people were?
3 comments:
It could have been any kind of a brotherhood. Not a college fraternity, but something more like the Masons or Knights of Pythias or other brotherhood along those lines. They tend to have highly secretive rituals that would probably extend to something like this. Brotherhood in these types of organizations tends to be extremely strong.
And my personal experience with secret handshakes is that you would have to know what you are looking for to notice anything weird. I know the two I am most intimate with are very subtle--I can exchange them with my sisters without anyone noticing. I don't think Kyle has ever caught on and I've done it in front of him almost every time I've greeted one of my sisters in his presence.
Oh, yeah...those guys were probably officers in the organization. And the unfortunate Yanni-like hair is probably an indication of the man's personal, um, style, rather than a reflection on the group.
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