THE DR.
PHILBILLY SHOW - Flipper - The Toe
by Wayne Carlan
Several weeks
back we were in church on a beautiful Sunday
morning. On that particular day we had a guest
preacher and it was getting toward the end of the
service. The preacher had given an excellent
sermon on the power of prayer and healing. Now
it’s normally our two sons that we have to
get on to during service to stop aggravating each
other but today it was my wife.
Melissa kept
flicking something on her key chain and making
this noise in my ear that was driving me nuts. I
ignored it as long as I possibly could then I
finally (and ever so politely) asked her to stop,
which only resulted in her intensifying her
efforts to drive me completely insane. I should
have known better than to say anything. What was
I thinking?
So I started
to aggravate her back but nothing was working.
The preacher was now asking us to bow our heads
in prayer and that’s when I saw something
that just cracked me up. I couldn’t stop
laughing! Melissa whispered in my ear wondering
what in the heck was so funny.
I said
“It’s your little toe.” (Melissa
was wearing sandals)
She said
“What about it?”
I then
proceeded to tell her that from my angle her
little toe looked like the head of a dolphin. So
when the prayer was concluded I started calling
her “Flipper” and talking to her in
dolphin language. You know…the high pitch
squeaking noise.
She got so mad
that she punched me in the dang ear. Right in the
middle of church! We were in the process of
standing up for the end of the service when it
happened and it knocked my equilibrium off. I
lost my balance and started staggering out into
the middle of the aisle. At the same time the
preacher asked if anyone needed prayer and when
he spotted me, he held out his arms in my
direction inviting me forward.
Everybody was
just staring at me so I had no choice but to walk
up front. I was committed. My mother in law was
so proud. When I got to the front he asked me
what I needed and I just told him I had an
earache and he prayed for me. I also asked him if
he could say a little prayer for my wife because
I had a feeling the rest of her day was going to
be a little rough. I’m just sayin’.
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