Once in a while, something will happen to me that really drives home how we no longer live in a Christian society, or even a society where Christian values predominate.
About six weeks ago a woman opened up a yoga studio on the floor right above my print shop. After a day or so of holding yoga classes, she came down to tell me that the noise from my machinery didn’t really bother her (it is, after all, very low pitched and rhythmic), but that my radio did. And she asked if I could turn the radio off when there were classes in session.
Fine, I’m a nice guy, sure. So for the next four weeks, I would go up to her studio on Monday mornings and get a schedule of the week’s classes so that I could accommodate her. Then, last Monday, I went up for a schedule, and she told me I could look it up on line.
Well, that really frosted me. Here I was trying to accommodate her, by not playing the radio, and she couldn’t be bothered accommodating me by providing me with a schedule.
Now, I can be a touchy guy, and so (just to see if I was looking at things the right way), I asked just about everyone I saw that day (co-workers, clients, my kids, etc.) how they added the situation up.
One person thought my neighbor was just being a jerk, “She should have been bringing you down a schedule without your asking!” But EVERYONE ELSE asked if I had not immediately gone down-stairs and turned on the radio full-blast.
That’s right, no one urged me to do the Christian thing and bear with her. Virtually everyone thought that I should strike back immediately.
Wow!
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Did it occur to you that perhaps she was trying to save you from having to walk up each week for a schedule, as you had been doing?