Instead of hitting only the Editorial and Penguins/NHL sections and calling myself informed.
If I had read more of the paper on May 11, I would not have missed that CityReachers Pittsburgh is raising money to place copies of the New Testament in the Sunday Post-Gazette on September 7.
Pittsburgh themed copies of the New Testament, with a “front cover showing the Golden Triangle, a back cover photograph of Steelers kneeling in prayer and will include testimonies of well-known Pittsburghers”.
Because nothing says “Come to Jesus” quite like a photograph of the Pittsburgh Steelers.*
Fortunately, there are several readers who do peruse more of the paper and wrote letters to the editor, the first protesting the idea and threatening to cancel their subscription, the second praising the potential positive effect of essentially forcing the New International Version translation of the New Testament into the homes 250,000 subscribers.
I'm interested in seeing how this unfolds.
*I can't believe there does not exist a Pittsburgh Steelers last supper image somewhere on the Internet. In a city that turned Gary Roberts into a cult hero, not one photo shopped marvel of Big Ben as Jesus? Which begs the question – who do Steelers fans hold more sacred: Big Ben or Jesus?
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Monday, May 26, 2008
Monday, November 12, 2007
A Very Vague Post
Don't you just love when people tell a story and leave out what seems to be, to you, significant details? I do. And I have one of those stories to tell.
J took his Miata (a standard shift that I can not drive) to hockey on Friday night as I needed the Volvo. On the drive out to a location I must not name, he noticed that one of the wheels was rattling badly. He left the car in the parking lot and caught a ride home.
On Saturday morning, before we left for Columbus, he drove back to the rink to meet AAA to have the car towed back to the garage. As it turned out, a tow was unnecessary as the mechanic put the bolts on backwards when replacing the wheel. The AAA mechanic put the bolts on properly and J left the car in the lot. Our plan was to stop on our way back from Columbus to pick it up.
For weather related reasons, we did not pick up the car on Sunday evening. This afternoon we caught what we thought was the correct bus to the lot where the car was parked. Except that it was not quite the correct bus. It was the correct bus number, but it took a different route. We found ourselves at the end of the line several miles from our intended destination with a long walk ahead. As the weather was decent today, it would not have been too much of a hardship, but we were still looking at least three miles.
The bus driver, who has to rename nameless, took mercy on our stupid souls and drove us back to a point where we could reach the car with only a short walk. This is significant as it was the end of the driver's shift and he would have been in a great deal of trouble if the Port Authority learned of his detour.
So I can not name the location, bus route or the name of the driver. I can't write to the Port Authority and compliment them on having such a great employee. But I can say, once again, that Pittsburgh has some truly great bus drivers and they deserve every penny they earn for putting up with such stupidity.
J took his Miata (a standard shift that I can not drive) to hockey on Friday night as I needed the Volvo. On the drive out to a location I must not name, he noticed that one of the wheels was rattling badly. He left the car in the parking lot and caught a ride home.
On Saturday morning, before we left for Columbus, he drove back to the rink to meet AAA to have the car towed back to the garage. As it turned out, a tow was unnecessary as the mechanic put the bolts on backwards when replacing the wheel. The AAA mechanic put the bolts on properly and J left the car in the lot. Our plan was to stop on our way back from Columbus to pick it up.
For weather related reasons, we did not pick up the car on Sunday evening. This afternoon we caught what we thought was the correct bus to the lot where the car was parked. Except that it was not quite the correct bus. It was the correct bus number, but it took a different route. We found ourselves at the end of the line several miles from our intended destination with a long walk ahead. As the weather was decent today, it would not have been too much of a hardship, but we were still looking at least three miles.
The bus driver, who has to rename nameless, took mercy on our stupid souls and drove us back to a point where we could reach the car with only a short walk. This is significant as it was the end of the driver's shift and he would have been in a great deal of trouble if the Port Authority learned of his detour.
So I can not name the location, bus route or the name of the driver. I can't write to the Port Authority and compliment them on having such a great employee. But I can say, once again, that Pittsburgh has some truly great bus drivers and they deserve every penny they earn for putting up with such stupidity.
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