I felt like I had been a pretty good guy. When the day came up that Micki and I had planned to go to Confession, I couldn't really think of what to confess, and I mentioned this to Micki.
When I went into the confessional, I told the priest, "I couldn't think of what to confess, so I asked my wife, and she told me."
I had never heard Father Rick laughed so hard in the confessional before.
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When I was stationed in South Korea, my yobo tried to teach me how to play a game using Korean Hwa-t'u cards. Here in America we're lucky, having to play with only four suits of cards. But you might say that Koreans are lucky, too, in that their twelve suits are so beautiful. Penny tried her hardest to teach me what she thought was a simple game, but I never could learn the cards themselves. She was nice, though, and I suspect manipulated me into winning the game, with me not having a clue how I did it. I tell a little bit more about this game in my book, Happy Mountain.
Since then I've managed to find and purchase a nice deck of Hwa-t'u cards online, but have yet to play another game with them. Not only do I need to know what each of the 48 cards is, but I have to find somebody else who knows.
The most common and popular and supposedly easiest Hwa-t'u game is Go-Stop. It's pretty easy to find the game's instructions online. But first it's necessary to learn the cards. So here they are for you to study and admire.
Arvid Garwood was a hermit on the hill reputed by children to be very mean and a cannibal. People had disappeared in the area, and boys and girls, as well as some parents, blamed it on Garwood.
Tommy was infatuated with a young girl in school named Susan, but she would seldom return eye contact, let alone friendship. Tommy's best friend was Brian, and one day he and Brian hiked up the hill to get a look at Arvid Garwood's cabin. They hunched behind some bushes and scared each other with "what ifs."
As they started to go back down, Brian spotted a man's footprints in the mud, crossing their path, and they followed them and found a cave. Deep inside they found a pile of human bones! "Garwood IS a cannibal!" they assured themselves, but, being boys, they decided to keep this their special secret for at least a few days.
During a break at school, Tommy approached Susan and told her that he had found a very scary secret place and offered to share it with her. He talked Susan into coming with Brian and him on the hike, but, not finding Brian at home, just the two of them went.
Tommy and Susan came upon the cave and cautiously went in. Tommy was thrilled that he finally had something impressive enough to get Susan to come with him, and hoped that they would now have a special bond and she would be his girlfriend.
When they came to the pile of human bones, Susan stood back, while Tommy tried to act brave walking up to the gory mass. Suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his back and on his neck, and he landed hard on the ground. Just before Tommy drifted out of consciousness, he heard Susan call out, "Uncle Arvid!" A man grunted from further in the cave. "I've got us another one, Uncle Arvid," shouted Susan. "This time can I have the heart?"
I was 18 and hitchhiking in South Carolina, and wound up having to walk in the dark at the edge of a city. Vision was terrible, but I managed to make out the road and avoid the deep ditch beside it.
Suddenly a big black man ran up out of the ditch and stopped a few feet in front of me! All I could see was a big silhouette and two wide-open eyes!
"You scared me haff t'death!" he said.
"You scared me!" I laughed.
We then had a good friendly laugh together, and went our separate ways.
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