Do you ever play the points game? For example, when a little old lady steps into the street ahead of you accompanied by a boisterous grandchild, do you announce to anyone else in the car: “50 points”. Does the point total go up if they also have a baby carriage and the boisterous grandchild is blind with a cane? I thought so. You are just sick!
I have a similar game. Here’s an up-to-the-minute report of my sin-points for this evening, inclusive of the afternoon:
Pride: earlier today, Pride was off the scale. But, I’ve been brought up short by the stupidity of my … well, the usual. At the moment I’m in negative pride. By averaging, I’d say I get 50 points for pride.
Envy: Zero! Go me.
Gluttony: Also a zero. No - wait. Dang. I swear I did NOT mean for all that ranch dressing to get on my lettuce. It was the bottle. I was tricked. It is very viscous - and I even tried to get most of it to go back in the bottle…. OK. 15.
Lust: Oh man, Alas. What I wouldn’t give to trade a little Pride…
Anger: [censored]
Greed: Hmmm. I’d say 10 points if coveting hugs counts.
Sloth: I’ll give this a 5. Got fantastic amounts done today, but then blew my lead by resorting to cheap tricks for a blog entry.
That puts me in the neighborhood of around 200 points. Not too shabby. I better stay out of the street.
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