Sonic again

Everyone who reads our blog is going to begin to think that all Arthur and I do is hang out at Sonic.  This isn’t completely true but we do make more frequent trips in the summer.  Maybe it is just that our trips to Sonic are the most notable events in our day-to-day life.  Anyway, here’s another Sonic post:

Friday evening we headed out on a walk to drop our water bill off at the city office and to stroll around town for a bit with the intent of ending up at Sonic after 8pm for half price shakes.  It was a great summer evening and it seemed like about everyone else decided to drop by Sonic as well.  At our Sonic there is a patio area where you can walk up and order instead of having to stand in a parking stall.  We ordered the regular- hot fudge shake and grape slushy.  We have been using a Sonic gift card for our trips but it only had enough on it to cover half of our tab.  The gal brought out our order—hot fudge shake and Coke with grape flavoring—and Arthur gave her his card to cover the rest.  She came back out and said that they couldn’t take his card for some reason.  This left paying in cash—except Arthur has the habit of not carrying in cash.  We asked if we could run home and get the money which the gal said was fine but we would have to leave our order.  Through this conversation a couple who we sit behind in church every week overheard and loaned us the $2 to cover our debt.  We took the cash up to the window less than 30 seconds after we talked to the girl to retrieve our drinks.  She told us that some how our drinks had gotten dropped so they would have to make new ones and would bring them out to us.  We walked over to sit at the table with the couple from church.  They were celebrating their wedding anniversary with another couple at Sonic that evening.  They were chuckling because they had already helped out 2 young boys on bikes who had ordered ice water that they usually got for free but were charged 27 cents—they didn’t have money either so this couple bailed them out as well.  The car hop finally came out with our order—hot fudge shake and a large grape cream soda—Arthur was less than impressed with this.  Despite getting the wrong order and having to borrow $2 for our night out on the town we really enjoyed the evening.  We ended up sitting and chatting with these couples for about an hour and had a wonderful time (except Arthur got eaten by bugs).  I came away from the evening with a few lessons learned: 

1. Encourage Arthur to carry cash (actually this wasn’t anything new). 

2. Sometimes it takes getting outside the walls of the church to have fellowship with people on Friday night that you worship with every Sunday but don’t really know. 

3.  If you are looking for a good way to minister to others, maybe spend the evening sitting at Sonic and offer to cover another person’s tab—what an easy act of showing love toward a neighbor.  Omnia Vincit Amor.