A night among adults
Last Saturday night, L. babysat for The Agent while Mr. Tldz and I went out to dinner with RW and S. It was goofy how giddy I got about it in the days leading up to it. Wow — I could actually get a little dressed up, spend time with adults, and eat a meal that didn’t involve keeping an eye on a toddler and his meal. (Do you think maybe I’m feeling the isolation and lack of conversation of being stuck at home with a toddler all day? And a non-verbal toddler at that?) Mr. Tldz and I tried to remember the last time we went out somewhere without the Agent. We were horrified at that thought that maybe it was our anniversary in November; but then we remembered that we’d had dinner at the home of some friends from church in March or early April. L. stayed with the Agent then, too, and we went over after our friends’ daughter was down for the night. Okay, that’s not as pathetic as its having been November, but still.
Anyway, we met RW and S at Athens Pizza. I’d had their pizza, but never been to the restaurant to check out the rest of the menu. Good Greek food. Including gyros. Why didn’t I know about this before?!? And fabulous desserts, too. And always fun to see them. Unfortunately, the conversation turned to politics — the proposed government healthcare plan, in particular — and I found it depressing to see in living color in front of me the stranglehold Leftist thought has on mainline Protestantism and academia. As Mr. Tldz said, it’s just further proof of the old academic joke about a Ph.D. being just “piled higher and deeper.” Oh well.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:50 am
I cracked up reading this. Last week, on our way home, RW and I were saying something oddly parallel… “It’s so frustrating to see the stranglehold that conservatism has in the Catholic and fundamentalist Protestant churches–and right there, a perfect example of intelligent people whose conversation suddenly became a regurgitation of right wing radio talking points.”
And then I said, “You know what’s funny? They’re saying the exact same thing right now.” And you were!
July 27th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Ha!
This is pretty funny.
But as for conservatism having a stranglehold on Catholicism, we can only wish. Sadly, far too many Catholics follow popular secular thought much more than they follow the clear, consistent teachings of the Church.
July 28th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
I just kept asking myself, what common ground do we share on this matter? Perhaps it’s nothing more than shaking our fists at all that’s wrong in the world like a bunch of old codgers.
July 28th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
We really need to do this again, though.
Part of me thinks we should have a moratorium on political commentary during the meal, but part of me is a rhetoric Ph.D. student who thrives on this kind of debate. And part of me wants to bring a laptop for fact-checking. Okay, that part is Roy Wayne.
I have other restaurant.com coupons, heh. I’ve got one for Ippolito’s in Norcross…?