conversation with a cabbie

Me: "I'm headed to the music building.
Cabbie: "Off to a concert?"
M: "No, I'm meeting with a professor."
(I didn't realize till I was saying this, that it could be misconstrued.)
C: "You have an audition, then?"
M: "Yes"
(Phew. I was off the hook.)
C: "Well, you make sure you flirt nice with him, and you get started on the right foot."
(What the HECK!)
M: "Umm, that's not the foot I'm trying to start on."

Random stuff

C: Where are you from?
M: "Utah."
C: "Lord, girl, are you a Mormon?"
M: "Yes, sir."
C: "How many wives does your husband have?"
(sigh)
M: "I'm not married."

Talk about polygamy - he mainly talked, though he did ask if the Mormons still "did that stuff" and I said no.

Then the rest of the way was about crooked pastors always asking for money.

I informed him about the Mormon Church lay ministry. He seemed okay with that.

Then he went off on how other churches he tried out wouldn't let him smoke or drink. Or go to bars.

I kept my mouth shut - I'd already taken the idea away that LDSs aren't polygamists, and mentioned lay ministry.

The Word of Wisdom was something I'd leave for the missionaries.


My only other extreme religious experience here in the South was passing a street preacher, who informed me that Jesus was coming again.

"I know."