Gender Divide

One of the residents at the Mission has taken to doing push-ups. He does a set of five, several times a day. The problem is that he does them in the middle of the street in front of the building. He's almost been run over at least twice, and, as you might imagine, we're doing our best to dissuade him of this practice. What's interesting, however, is the way this has divided the staff, for the split is entirely along the gender line.

The women uniformly express concern - and even alarm - over how dangerous it is to do push-ups in the middle of a busy street.

The guys say he does push-ups like a girl. 

Comments

[Suzanne Temple]

Now that's funny.

[Ginger]

That's hilarious!

In other news, your book is just in time to be a Christmas gift to my colleague who teaches and leads in our college students' outreach to the marginalized in society. He's going to love it! Thanks.

[Psalm 46]

The guys are probably just jealous that they don't have the guts to do push ups in the street or maybe they just can't do push ups! Hahaha! A good chuckle on this overcast morning!

[Brian Buriff]

I just ordered your book and I look forward to it's arrival. The link you supplied didn't activate your publisher's website. I had to manually go there myself. Just a heads up. Congratulations again!

[[rhymes with kerouac]]

Suzanne - I thought so too!

Ginger - Thanks - I appreciate it.

Psalm 46 - Yeah, I did a push-up once. I didn't like it.

Brian - Thanks for ordering the book! I'm not sure what happened with the link - unless it's the link in your blog reader. I've tried all the others with both Firefox and Internet Exploder and they seem to be working. Oy Vey!

[karen]

so excited about your book and glad that it's available in print!! i haven't decided who it's a gift for yet, or if i'll selfishly keep it myself and maybe get some more copies... i'm so glad that the money's going to the mission... it's wonderful that there's a way i can help out a bit even though it's all anonymous!

[your sister]

I remember a certain brother with the initials RWK telling his MUCH young sister to go and play on the 401 (major highway Kings Highway) which ran along side of our backyard to go and play on it when he was suppose to be watching her (I could have been killed) you told this guy to go and play on the street didn't you??? Anyways I still love you!

[[rhymes with kerouac]]

Karen - thanks!

My Sister - Okay, everyone - sure, I told her to go play on the highway. (she didn't) I also told her to not hang out at the pool hall and smoke cigarettes until she was at least 15 but she didn't listen to me then, either. What's a big brother to do?