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| Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
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I think church should have been cancelled. |
I never want to hear my name and “has been called to be Bishop” in the same sentence. Same thing for SP. |
This would be great as a twitter meme: #badchurchannouncements Here are some: “Nursery will be held in primary today, as our nursery leaders are being interviewed by local law enforcement.” “The source of the smell in the basement has been located. Apparently our former janitor, Brother Brown, didn’t actually abandon his job as was previously thought.” “We ask that all those who were baptized yesterday get a shot of penecillin, as it has been found that the water in the baptismal font was run directly through the sewer line. Sorry about the stains on your baptismal clothes” “We wish to announce a change in the winner of the ward chili cook-off last weekend, as the originally announced winner has now been disqualified for using illegal and possibly mind-altering ingredients.” |
Love it :) |
#badchurchannouncements “Sorry for the rotten egg smell, a pipe broke last night and Brother Inglehammer forgot to start the phone tree to cancel church. Since we’re all here anyway we might as well continue.” Or “We have a new letter from Salt Lake….*whisper to self* Why do I have the results of last night’s game?” |
I think that it was unnecessary to mention that a ward member has a bedbug infestation. This will just start a witch hunt. Personally, I think that this is cause for cancelling Church or attending another building until the building is cleared. |
Yuck. I would have had a hard time staying at church after that announcement. |
Bedbugs are extremely difficult to completely eradicate, and by the time they’re visible, the infestation has already reached epic proportions. I don’t envy the facilities group in your area. They should definitely send your ward to another building until it’s cleared. Bedbugs are notoriously good at hitchiking home on people’s clothing or crawling into bags. |
I don’t know about a witch hunt for whoever had bed bugs, but I’d be really, really curious. |
Sure–people try to hunt down patient 0 for lice, I’m sure the same for the bedbugs. I don’t know when the leadership knew of the problem, but if they knew before Church, I agree that they should have rescheduled our meetings at another building. I really hope that they were just wrong. |
We had major bedbug issues in my last ward. Several families in the ward had infestations, and the problem was big city-wide. In fact, the issue was big enough that even though several people at church had bedbugs, I’m fairly certain they all picked it up in other places (school buses, movie theaters, etc.). We never heard about it over the pulpit. We actually found a bedbug in the chapel once, and I made a point to save it as evidence to compel the bishop to call for a specialist to see if there were more bedbugs at the church. There weren’t. Unfortunately, previous reports of bedbugs had gone unheeded because the bishop wanted solid evidence before hiring a specialist. A neighboring ward in a different building had to close down one week for an extermination, as bedbugs had set up shop there. They’re epidemic in some parts of the country, and state and local governments aren’t doing much to try to fix the problem. |
For some reason my comments aren’t getting through. Could you release just the last one? |
wow – I would have probably left the building when that announcement was made. |
annegb, You say that because it isn’t an epidemic in Utah. In New York bed bugs are a big deal. Getting rid of them is nearly impossible and it will cost you thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars. So, yeah, there might be a witch hunt. And tithing receipts might go way down. :) |
