LOL, those sermons can be so incovenient to our fuming
sometimes, can't they? :) Sorry for the hostile dad, that's
the pits, but glad you heard what you needed to hear at
church!

On 11/08/09, anon wrote:
> Had a parent come in in front of all my students right
> before a concert and tell me "First of all my daughter has
> a skin problem and if her face itches she WILL scratch it"
> and secondly, his other daughter has pneumonia and while he
> brought her to the concert, he didn't know if he was going
> to allow her to sing or not." Then he turned on his heels
> and disappeared. I guess he is refering to our talk to
> the choir about stage etiquette - not talking, playing with
> their hair, keeping their hands at their sides etc. At
> every grade level kids asked questions like "what if my
> hairband falls off, or I pop a button on my shirt, or what
> it another student throws up on me. What if my face
> itches. You wait until your 2 minute song is over and you
> are off stage to take care of it. Maybe "Itchy" asked
> that question, can't rememmber, but I have never seen a
> rash or her, nor seen her scratching either. When it
> happened I was too busy with a performance to give it much
> thought, but it kept rearing it's ugly head during
> church. The human in me wants to write a sickly sweet
> email about how I had no idea his daughter had a problem,
> and she will be exempt from the rules that apply to
> everyone else from now on, and how I appreciate him taking
> his other sick daughter home before she infected six
> others. And while I understood his great anger maybe next
> time we could privately instead in front of all the
> children- or better yet, Itchy could tell me herself that
> she has a problem. Unfortunately, the sermon , which
> intruded on my negative thoughts repeatedly, was on
> forgivenes and how we are a witness to God's love in
> everything we do. Darn it, I really wanted to tell him
> off . So I'm venting to you instead and will be sweet to
> Itchy in class. And I won't even ask her if she enjoyed
> scratching herself on stage!

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