Story of the Day 10/ 10/ 2009

This story is kind of an addendum to the Story from 9/6/2009……

In an effort to upgrade the atmosphere of services, on the high holidays, Parisa took the initiative of bringing some shawls to synagogue and leaving them on the odd piece of furniture in the lobby that holds assorted tallit and kippot and lace head doilies for people to use.

She thought that some of the people who were not regulars and who showed up for services might feel better , when they realized that there is some vague semblance of a dress code at Etz, if they had something to cover up their cleavage from the fact they are wearing absolutely no blouse at all, or anything else, apparently, under the open suit jacket, or that they might feel a need to maybe not let us all see what color their thong undies are.

The shawls did get good use. As a matter of fact, those same worshippers found the shawls especially helpful, since the air conditioning was turned up high.

Thank you , Alan!

The only problem is that these same people decided that they really did need to do something about their wardrobes, and they took the shawls home with them.
Every single one.
Gone.

My husband and I discussed this.
We think that the next time shawls are provided, they need to have those nice little sewn in labels.
Ones that say, “Property of Etz Chaim”.
Only, maybe the labels should not be so little.
And maybe they should say, as my husband suggested, “Stolen from Etz Chaim Synagogue”.
Or, as I suggested- though no one else seemed to like my suggestion:
“Property of Etz Chaim, Keep Your Fucking Hands Off!”