Absurd old ladies

Last summer when I was helping out at a vacation bible school in New York, I came across severals absurdities. One day we took the kids to a nursing home to sing and give tissue paper flowers to the residents. In the middle of one of out little church songs, an old lady bursts out and starts singing a patriotic tune. Some of the little kids looked nervous while others just wore a "what is that crazy old lady's problem" expression on their faces. It seemed like she was probably a decent singer back in the day, but this was just absurd. While in China Town on the same trip, our youth director pointed down the street at an old lady approaching us and exclaimed, "Just look at the culture!" The lady was wearing a long skirt, shawl, and head covering, and was hobbling in our direction. As she approached, we could see that her teeth had rotted out, and she was swearing like a sailor about loosing money she had bet on a soccer team who had just lost. We laughed at our youth directors exasperated expression as she realized she probably should have picked a better example of culture to point out.