For Your Amusement
Dec 30, 2006
Q: How do you tell the difference between a Catholic and a Baptist?
A: When you bump into the Catholic at the liquor store, he says hello, asks about your kids, and invites you to his next cocktail party.
Addendum by Lucy: When you bump into the Baptist at the liquor store, they'll be disguised in "sunglasses and a big coat" at a store at least sixty miles from the church, working on the premise that if they don't look at you, you won't notice them.
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You have no idea HOW much this amused me!
My mother, who is definitely a Baptist, used to give us a tablespoon of hard whiskey when we had phlegm in out throat from either sinuses or bronchitus. She intentionally bought the nastiest stuff possible so we wouldn't get a "taste" for it!
Actually giving it to us usually involved both parents chasing me or my brother through the house and then one of them restraining us while the other yelled dire and useless threats, pinched out noses, and tipped in the spoon of whiskey!
Which was almost as amusing as watching my mother go to buy another bottle. Personally, I only saw it once or twice (a bottle could last for years). She'd wear sunglasses and a big coat and drive to another town about an hour away in the middle of the afternoon to dash into the store and back out quickly before she was identified!