One More Use for a Gideon's Bible

 

by Pa Rock

Road Warrior

Monday Evening:  I began today at the Brickyard Inn in Rawlins, Wyoming, and ended it at the Econo Lodge in Hays, Kansas, approximately four hours from tomorrow's driving goal of Roeland Park, Kansas. It was my second stay at the Brickyard, and I liked it so well - clean, cheap, and safe - that I left the maids a nice tip each time, and this visit I even left them my glasses.   As a result of the recent cataract surgery, I don't need the glasses for driving, and I was a hundred miles down the road this morning before I realized they weren't on my nose, but I do need them for reading and working at the computer.  Tonight as I type this blog entry, I am correcting text paragraph by paragraph with the aid of a small magnifying glass that I bought at a truck stop.   

My motel tonight is between an Arby's and a Freddy's.   I couldn't read the Wi-Fi choices on my computer, so I clicked on the one that I thought was Econo Lodge and got Freddy's free Wi-Fi instead.  The connection is better than the food, but the eatery closes in thirty-six minutes, so I must rush.   Gilda Radner said it best:  "It's always something!

Tonight's room is short on plug-ins, which is a fairly common problem in motels.  There is a nice lamp on the desk with two outlets on its base, but it sits too low to plug in my electronics.  I dug through my luggage and the room itself looking for something that I could sit under the lamp to raise it one inch higher, and finally came up with a solution:  the Gideon's motel Bible.  It's a Godsend!

The Gideons and I have a history.  Many years ago when I was a principal at a large middle school, a group of Gideons showed up at the school on the last day of classes wanting to hand out free Bibles to the students in the classrooms as they were preparing to leave for the summer.   I politely declined citing the Constitution's clear separation of Church and State, and the proselytizers took great offense.  They brought in reinforcements and when classes dismissed they had their people on the public sidewalks surrounding the school and were passing out Bibles at warp speed as the kids were rushing off for their summer of freedom from books and such.

So, I really don't mind using a Gideon's Bible as a lamp stand!

Roeland Park (near Kansas City) tomorrow, and home on Wednesday!