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I am a Mormon...married to Lisa. We have 5 awesome children. I am a gun rights advocate and believe the 'right to keep and bear arms' refers to an INDIVIDUAL right, as affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court. I like to hunt big game, although I have only ever killed a single buck deer. I am an actor of sorts and have been in many local plays and musicals.
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  • 10 March 2010

    A Suspicious Eye

    A few years back my friend, a lawyer, was working on some huge project in his office with all the other attorneys and nobody had a chance to get out for lunch. So Dave* left to pick up some sandwiches for everyone. The office manager went with him to help carry the heavy load. The sandwich shop was literally across the street. They walked across the street, bought the sandwiches, and walked them back to the office together. When he got home from work that night his wife asked, "Who were you with at lunch?"

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    Dave's wife had driven through the area at the exact moment he walked across the street for lunch. There wasn't a whole lot of suspicion in her voice. After all, the office manager was 60+ years old and she would never suspect her 30-year-old husband of having an affair with the grandmotherly type.

    He was stunned at the question. He hadn't thought twice about it. He explained the situation and his wife was more than understanding. However, he felt uncomfortable for having put the thought of infidelity into her head in the first place.

    On one extreme you have my former bishop. Were he driving through the neighborhood in a blizzard and noticed a woman from his ward trudging through the snow, he would kindly wave as he drove by, never offering a ride.

    On the other hand, I have co-workers who are married and don't think twice about going to lunch with someone of the opposite sex. Alone.

    Do you practice 1 Thessalonians 5:22? "Abstain from all appearance of evil."

    I know what I think. What is your opinion?



    (*Names have been changed to protect the innocent.)
    Posted by Mateo at 12:12

    5 comments:

    This Place is a Disaster! said...

    Have you been reading Gordon b. Hinckleys bio?
    He was privy to the exact same experience on his was to work one day.

    10 March, 2010 16:42
    Mateo said...

    Get out! Nope...wasn't Gordon B. It was actually a friend who has now moved from my ward.

    10 March, 2010 17:07
    Natalie said...

    This has actually been a bit of a sore subject at our house before. My husband has taken co-workers with him to Costco or out to lunch and never thought much about it. He even took a group of women from his office to the mall to buy them a little bonus gift they all earned a few years back. (Think Michael Scott in that episode of The Office, only not to Victoria's Secret. At least, I hope not...)

    At first, he didn't understand what the big deal was. I pointed out that if anyone we knew saw him, they'd wonder what was going on, right? And when I asked how he'd feel if we turned the situation around and *I* went out to lunch with another man, or went to the mall with a whole group of men, he finally got it. Loud and clear.

    Now he's super cautious. I ever overheard him last week tell a friend of ours who called that no, he would not be able to pick this man's wife up from the airport because it just wouldn't look right.

    Amen!

    11 March, 2010 18:27
    Ashcraft Family said...

    I think if you're in a group. Or another man and a woman... situations like that are ok. It's when two are alone that it's trouble...with a capital T and rhymes with P and stands for...
    hee hee couldn't resist.

    22 March, 2010 21:39
    Ashcraft Family said...

    p.s. that picture just says it all!!!

    need a razor? haa haa

    22 March, 2010 21:41

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