We're late for Easter mass, as usual, so my family and I stand in the back of the church. During the mass, the priest walks around sprinkling everyone with holy water using the branches of some sort of plant. He walks around the entire church. He comes close to where we are and sprinkles us from the right-most part of the row where we are standing. We're all the way on the left side.
I manage to not get wet. That's fine. I do the sign of the cross, anyway. So the priest walks to the next part of the church, and just as he passes me, he looks me right in the eye, dips his branch in the bowl of holy water and BAM splashes me right in the face with all the water.
Homeboy was eying a brother. He was lookin' like "Yo, this boy needs some extra blessing. Imma get him good."
The priest, by the way, is Nigerian.
Posted by glenn at March 27, 2005 10:00 AM