Rooster Alarm Clocks

If I were to utter the words "rooster alarm clock" in front of certain people there would certainly be laughter, you know the kind where you spit your milk out. Every year I went with my youth group on choir tours and mission trips. The spring of '95 our youth group went to Holdenville, OK for our mission trip. It certainly turned out to be a big adventure.

We left Montgomery for the really really long drive and we were suppose to arrive on a Saturday night around 10ish. I can't remember what happened but we were delayed a long the way. I remember riding on the bus in the middle of freaking nowhere and I seem to remember fields and it was storming and we could see the lightening. Well, it was really late and we were all tired of being on the bus. I remember Jessica, Michael, Leigh, Dani and others playing 5 card stud. During the conversation I am sure we were quite loopy from the trip and we started talking about how backwards the people in OK would be. I mean we saw the corn or something fields and we just imagined these country bumpkins. Thinking back I can't believe we thought that (we did end up being semi right though) because we are from Alabama. Anyhoo...

During us joking on the place we were going I blurted out "I bet that have a rooster alarm clock". Don't ask me where that came from it was completely in the left field. We all ended up laughing hysterically about that and were joking on it. We finally get to OK at 2am and the people at the church were there to greet us. Each of us had a partner and each pair stayed with host families. Typically before we get to a church we have already been assigned families but for some reason this wasn't done. I remember sitting in a room in the church and someone from our church would call out a pair and then a host family would pick us. It kind of felt like we were being auctioned off. They called out Leigh and myself and told them I was the pk and something else about my crazy self. I remember this strange girl, Elise, started saying she wanted us to stay with her. It was kind of odd.

So we go home w/ Elise and her dad. We were given the front living room as our place for the week. It was really really late, almost 3 or 4am. The dad comes in and asks us if we need an alarm clock. We said yes and then he tells us he has a, and I'm sooooo not even kidding, ROOSTER ALARM CLOCK!!! Yes, a rooster alarm clock. It was shaped as a rooster and even cock-a-doodle-dooed. We died laughing. I'm sure they thought we were kind of rude or something, but yeah, we just died.

We woke up to the rooster and went to church. Oh my! This is what kills me. While we were trying to get to sleep the parents had some crazy love music playing and their wall was right next to us and we could hear it b/c it was so loud. I think we even heard some bumping in their room. It was just a little much. So at church the next morning some of the members of the youth group were saying how strange Elise and her family were. Yeah, they were so weird and having people confirm what we thought.

It even gets more strange but my fingers can't keep typing tonight. I'll have to finish this up later. Part 2 will have us "ride around this town and let the cops chase us around" and visit the postman. Stay tuned.