Today I ran into a lady I had met earlier during the week. She is a sweet lady that serves as a director of pastoral care at a church in Northern Ireland. We had a wonderful time connecting and sharing different experiences about counseling within the church. As I walked through the hallway at the church building I ran into her. Her’s the initial dialogue we had:
Me: Hello Ann!
Ann: (looking at me confused for 3 seconds) Oh hello Filip! I didn’t recognize you. You look very…
Filip: (I was wearing a hoodie with track pants and a hat) Oh, yeah I am dressed a bit casual today. It’s not as formal as the clothes I wore the rest of the week (I mostly wore jeans and khaki pants with button down shirts).
Ann: Oh you are? I thought you were casually dressed all week…
Leave it to those Europeans to tell it straight to your face.
Nevertheless we had a wonderful conversation about driving on the right side of the road and reflecting on the great week we both had! We hugged exchanged emails and I now have a friend in Northern Ireland! The conversation left a weird taste in my mouth. I didn’t figure it out until I drove home. It was the longing for some black tea. So as I write this, I am sitting on the back porch, enjoying the lovely Wisconsin fall weather while sipping on some Black tea with a hint of milk, no sugar!
