Tuesday, October 04, 2005

A New All-Time Low

After 8pm, phone rings. It is a pre-recorded telemarketer selling, I kid you not, God. Go-hod. Not even a live person for Go-hod. Somehow they think they need to "reach" more people (live more opulently themselves) and that I should deprive my children of something so they can. All I can think of is Chinua Achebe's book Things Fall Apart.

4 comments:

Madcap said...

Oh, Ichabod, Ichabod, how the mighty have fallen! Sounds like lean times in heaven. What a hard-hearted woman you are to deny the Almighty small change, CG!

Dan Trabue said...

If they were selling God, how much was he? I mean, was it a good deal?

A little God could come in handy sometime, you know?

Dan Trabue said...

I suspect most of us want an easily managed God, such as you could purchase at Walmart, rather than any real, wholly untamed God.

Dan Trabue said...

By the way, Achebe is going to be in Louisville - my hometown - Oct. 25! His is a name you don't hear often.