Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Great Idea

For today's edition of YouTube Tuesday on the Chicks Dig McLovin (cause he tastes like chicken) blog, it will be a video of something I wish I had thought of. After watching this video, it made me sit here and say, "Damn, why didn't I think of that?"

The video is a story of a boy whose baptism was recently held at Fenway Park, and was the first-ever baptism at the ballyard.

Why didn't I think of having my son's baptism at Fenway Park? Here's why - this is a pretty close re-enactment of how that conversation would have gone with my wife.

Me: I have a great idea of where Dylan's baptism should be.

Wife: It's going to be at St. Irene's, where I was baptized and where we were married.

Me: That is a great idea, but I'm thinking that we could think of somewhere different.

Wife (now starting to become agitated): Where's that?

Me: Fenway Park. It'll be great. It will be unique. How many people do you know were baptized at Fenway Park.

Then crickets - nothing, no response at all. Then finally.

Wife: None, because it's not a church.

Our conversation ends.

I want to know the levels of conversation this guy had with his wife to come up from Florida to get his son baptized at Fenway Park (the report starts at the 30 second mark).

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Anonymous said...

You wanted to know about the conversation this guy had with his wife. Well, this is his wife. It went something like this. I was bogged down during tax season (I am a CPA) so long story short, I left the baptism planning up to my husband. We are from New England and all of our family still live in Mass and RI, SO we would have gone up north either way, just a matter of location. Having planned everything else (wedding, showers, etc.), I thought it nice for my husband should have his dream of this Fenway Park baptism. He came into the kitchen and said honey, there has NEVER been a baptism at Fenway Park, I laughed and said yeah.. that's because MOST people have them in a church! he said well they have weddings, etc. in different places, I said true, but do they have drive by baptisms in Vegas? Anyhow, I continued to leave all of the planning up to him. he did a great job and when all is said and done, it was amazing. No I wasn't crazy about it at first, but it all worked out.

May 28, 2008 at 11:02 AM

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