Balloon

Now, here's a kid who can do something I'll never be able to do.

Nor would I want to.

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A lot of people have been retiring from the office where my wife works and one day the staff was having another luncheon for them. As everyone piled into a few cars for the short trip to the restaurant, they realized the giant balloon they had purchased - with the words "Gone But Not Forgotten" - would not fit into their vehicle. So they just held onto the string tight and let it dangle through the window and outside the car as they drove.

My wife and the others in her car, however, were hardly prepared for all of the glares they received from drivers in the other cars. And there was an awful lot of traffic that day.

All was revealed as the long line of cars in front of them turned a corner.

Turns out they had been following a funeral procession.

[Pastor Tim's Cybersalt Digest]

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WORD for YOUR WEEK: General Ambrose Everett Burnside was a Civil War military figure. He wasn't a very good strategist, apparently, but was well-liked and eventually went into politics. He wore long mutton-chop style whiskers down the side of his face and they eventually became known as, you guessed it, "sideburns."

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