Mormons: Too Polite to Get Anything Done
On Saturday, I invited a half-dozen of my friends from the local Mormon singles ward to watch Big Fish on my projector. I thought everything was going fine–we made a huge pot of popcorn, crowded onto a couple couches and a Love Sac, and settled in for a great movie.
I still thought everything was going fine one minute before the movie ended. As soon as the credits rolled and the lights turned on, though, everyone started saying how cold it was. I guess I’d just gotten used to living in a cold house. But everyone had spent the entire movie shivering in their pride.
I can’t understand it. Why didn’t anyone say anything? It takes about 2 seconds to turn up the thermostat. It reminds me of how I was too shy to ask to go to the bathroom back in early elementary school, so I would hold it in for hours (sometimes the entire day).
I guess we Mormons are raised to be a bit too polite. You should see a group of Mormon kids trying to decide where to go out to dinner:
“Where do you want to go?”
“I don’t care. Where do you want to go?”
“Well, there’s Denny’s, or Fazoli’s, or Olive Garden, or… I don’t know. I’ll go wherever.”
“Look, I’ve been all those places. You decide.”
“You’re the one driving. Just go where you want to go.”
It’s just silly. Everyone has an opinion. Except Mormons, it seems.
December 20th, 2006 at 7:45 am
That reminds me of a lot of my dates with Doug, lol. Although I think it’s just because we’re both REALLY indecisive.
February 5th, 2007 at 7:03 am
Hmmmmmmm…… How do you come up with such insightful ideas?
And, I didn’t hold it. I just went to the bathroom in the bushes during recess.
March 28th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
I would say you have way too much time on your hands to come up with an idea like this and then even more time to write about it on your own website. Are you sure you get out enough?