Gullible

So apparently I suffer from severe gullability. Which, in all honesty, my close friends already know and love to torture me with. Let me illustrate:

I'm upstairs in the youth building with Collin & Kiefer for drama practice. No one bothered to mention to me that there was a huge wasp problem in the area and they had sprayed and basically quarantined the area. I mean, why should they tell me, right? I'm just a youth leader that has practice up there every Sunday... haha. Anyway--we get up there and see a bunch of dead wasps on the floor and I'm freaking out. The bathroom hall is completely FULL of dead wasps and I'm getting all nervous and shaky. Then I hear a buzz and realize there's a live one in the light and I start screaming like a maniac and running downstairs. The boys follow me pretending to be very manly but I KNOW they were creeped out as well. When I get to the bottom I'm sure the wasp followed me and I'm patting myself and dancing around like I'm about to pee my pants. They just stare at me. I finally calm down and start to say something when we hear a door open down the hall. I opened the building so I know we're the only ones in it. I freeze, terrified because... well I don't know why. I just did. The boys see my eyes wide open and I whisper "What was that?" and Collin says very slowly and seriously: "The wasp". And I am telling you for the smallest inkling of time measurable... I believed him. Then they both took off running as I chased them and thank God it was only Pastor Vicki... sigh.

Another great example: I'm at the On Base vet clinic getting my retarded cat micro-chipped because YES, they're THAT important... and the vet starts explaining the process. It's nothing like what I thought it was and she says "Well, how did you think it worked?" and me in all my smartness say "I thought it was like a GPS system" and she says "A GPS system INSIDE your cat?" and by her tone I know to retract, gulp and ever so quietly reply "Yeah". She says IN THAT TONE "So.. you thought if your cat got lost you could GPS track it to the microchip in its neck?..." and I once again reply quietly "Yeah.." She looks ever so shocked and says "Well, ma'am, we ARE the military but you have to remember this IS a cat..." Yeah, I know..

Okay so my last example is by far Bob's favorite. When I was little my older sister rented the movie Airplane. It was the greatest movie ever. Except I tell all my boys not to rent it "because it's got boobies in it"--and I stand by that. Anyhoo--for those of you that haven't seen it-- LIKE MY BOYS WHO I KNOW ARE TOO PURE TO WATCH IT--there's a scene where the pilot puts the plane on auto-pilot. When he does a balloon man inflates and begins to fly the plane. Now I need to remind all of you just like I remind Bob EVERYTIME this story comes up--that I was like 7 years old!! Okay... so fast forward to like 23 years later (sheesh this is embarrassing) and Bob's telling me about a mission they flew at work and some sort of thing-a-ma-jiggy that was broken on the plane he was fixing and something about the navigation system (his job is complicated-don't judge me) and it has to do with the auto-pilot system. He's explaining how it works and I'm like "Do all the inflatable pilots look like the one in Airplane or do yours have flightsuits (what the military wears) on?" He takes like the LONGEST pause in the universe and then says "What?" "Haven't you seen Airplane?" I ask. "Yeah" he replies. "The autopilot you know is dressed like a pilot. Is that how the military ones are dressed or do they have different clothes?" I would give ANYTHING for you to be able to see this man's face at this moment. I am laughing right now just thinking about it. Finally after staring at me for about 3 minutes he dies laughing. And I don't know how many of you have actually seen my husband laugh like he did that night. My husband has worked on the flight line for almost 16 years now. He is a Tech Sergeant in the Air Force. And his wife thought an inflatable balloon dressed as a pilot flew the plane when no one else was. FREAKING MOVIES!!

So there you go. I am an idiot. That's right--laugh it up.