can i get a date with that testimony?

let me tell you, my friends. when it rains, it pours. in the past four days, i have been asked out THREE times. twice at starbucks, and once today because i witnessed a car accident. i don't know if it's something in the water or if there is a flashing sign above my head, but this NEVER happens. up until this week, i would say i had been asked out maybe ONCE in the past year. and that time it was questionable whether or not the request was date-like in nature.

anyway, so this morning i decided to sleep in a little bit and forego the usual 8:00am prayer time that i usually go to at my church. i woke up around 7:00am, asked the Lord if He would mind if i slept a little more, and felt like it was okay with Him this morning. so i woke up officially around 9:15 or so, got ready, and started to drive to church.

as i am driving through the euclid/elmhurst intersection, i witness a car crash. nothing too serious, but a little more than a fender bender. i pulled around and parked in a lot near the intersection to see if the two women involved needed a witness. as i was walking up to the intersection, i just felt like there was a reason why the Lord had me be there at that time. i was praying as i approached the women, but not really sure what i should be praying for.

i stood in the intersection with them, and one of the women called the police, but as she did a cop drove right by us, and i flagged him down. he got out of his car and came up to us. i first gave him my account of what i saw, and then he took down my number and address in case they needed to question me further. i left and went to church. while i was in church, someone called my phone and left a message. i listened to it after church, and it was the cop just wanting to clarify something else about the accident. he actually called again as i was listening to the message, so i clicked over to talk to him.

i answered a few more questions about the accident, mostly regarding light changes and such, and then the officer started asking me getting-to-know-you type questions. uh oh. cops don't really do that, do they? he started fishing for whether or not i had a boyfriend. so i knew it was coming. "would you want to go out sometime?" ahh yes... there it was.

i didn't really know how to respond. i mean, he wasn't totally creepy about it or anything. he's probably a little older than i am and he seemed like an even-tempered sort of guy. so i guess, given that he wasn't flat-out creepy, it kind of felt like it would be disrespectful to totally reject the officer in the same breath as i was helping him to find fault in an accident. so i said, "let me think about it." which was kind of a silly response since i don't want to go out with him, but it just seemed like since the moment was set up by the Lord, i should at least spend some time asking Him if i should respond in any way that is different than my natural tendency, which would have been to say "no" and forget the whole thing ever happened. huh. weird.

there must be something illegal about using a witness' private information to make a personal phone call to them. that's kind of shady. maybe i should report him.

anyhow, i do think it's a pretty funny story. i thought you might like to know.