Take a flyer!

This morning, a friend of mine and I were going to pass out flyers for a 3-on-3 basketball tournament at our church. Since we only had a small handful with us, we stopped by the church (which, btw, is also a school) for some more. Unfortunately, the door we needed to get into was locked, so we headed up to the office building. We figured that there had to be someone there because there were dozens of cars in the parking lot. We knock on the youth pastor's office door, but no one answered. (We had forgotten that the youth group had gone to a Clemson basketball game that morning). No one was in the main office either, so I knocked on the principal's office door. Because it wasn't locked (for some reason), it came open quite easily. And that's when I heard a

beep-beep-beep-beep-beep

I quickly shut the door, hoping that it would deactivate the alarm. A few seconds more of beeping then a

beepbeepbeepbeepbeep

and then a

WAH!!-WAH!!-WAH!!-WAH!!

as the alarm klaxon sounded. It's quite loud. I was not looking forward to explaining to the police what happened.

Fortunately, we encountered the school janitor, who called the church's business manager on his cell phone. I think that he must have deactivated the alarm remotely, because it turned off before anyone did anything in the office.

We quickly fled the scene to go to the college we were supposed to give the flyers out at. And there was no one there. No one. So we did the only natural thing: We went to prison! The SC Department of Corrections was across the street, so we left a stack of flyers there. We also gave some to a local soup kitchen, a YMCA, a gas station, an Army/Navy surplus store. The last one was my friend's suggestion; she wanted to check out the camo/uniforms. I can't wait to find out if she actually told her parents everywhere she went.

Posted by Blog Jones at February 28, 2004 11:38 PM | Category: Personal