Strange Events

My wife and I agree that there is this strange sense of weirdness around us. It’s like a lot of things make no sense at all.

After the debacle with our tire repair, I complained to the company behind the local tire shop. They leaned on the manager of the shop to call us, and he did. He offered an appointment, so I took it. But then I had something come up and Veloyce had to take the car in for that appointment. One of the guys in the shop grabbed the packet, and then was distracted by a call for assistance from someone else. So he went over got involved in something, completely forgetting our packet. He went off and did something else.

So the manager came out and asked Veloyce why she was still there an hour after the appointment should have started. She said they never pulled the car in. They looked and couldn’t find the packet. This created a bit of stir in the shop. Eventually they found it. Then the manager told my wife she should have asked for him when she came in. She did, but the desk clerk didn’t follow through, so he got chewed out, too.

It was a comedy of errors. The manager grabbed one of the workers and the two of them whipped through the task in just a few minutes, finding a screw in the tire and patching the hole.

That wasn’t the only thing. I ordered new shifters for my bike. I took them to the shop and they agreed to install them with new brake levers. But the shifters were an odd version that couldn’t be mounted in the typical fashion. They took forever trying to find something suitable with no luck. So I went in and told them just get the cables hooked up and working, and that I would take care of the mounting. I’ll just rig something.

So the technician said, “fine” and then I left. But he didn’t tell the service manager what I said, so when he took care of a priority customer, his day ended and the other guy still didn’t know what I wanted. Three days later, I called and he told me the same story about waiting for mounts. I told him what I really wanted, that I would take care of the mounts, just get it working. I need my bike back, Dude! It’s been more than a week. And I was even giving them the expensive blade shifters that came with the bike, for free.

Those are just two samples. Lots of things have gone strange for us in the past week or so. It’s not threatening, just minor frustrations because things failed to work as they should — too many things all at once. Yes, it’s a lot of demonic activity, but restrained. They aren’t allowed to really harm anything. I believe it’s a sign of things to come.

Pray with us as we seek to make ourselves more self-reliant in as many ways as possible. We need to get an automotive battery jump box and some way to put air in the tires. That would take care of two significant gaps in our armor, so to speak. It would also allow us to be ready to help others. I’m convinced it’s going to be like that, with lots of things we take for granted suddenly not there.