Incident at a Church

A physician had agreed to speak to a new club in Ridgewood, Health Matters. His subject: prostate problems.

When he came to our meeting place, he was disappointed to find that we didn’t have a projector. We hadn’t been told he needed one. So the physician asked if we could photocopy his slides.

We meet at the First Presbyterian Church in Ridgewood – we rent space.

Church workers were helpful. Let let us print out one copy. But our organization had stopped paying to use the church’s copying machine.

We asked: Could we print out 6 x 10 or 20 copies, on the church’s own machine?

Too many, said the church’s minister.

So the physician had to give his talk without slides. To a group of men on the subject of prostate problems.

I should have offered to pay. I should have taken a $20 bill out of my wallet and offered it to someone.

But I’m surprised at the unfriendly behavior of the church’s minister,