Re Stanford Coin Wash & Dangerous Assumptions

Stanford Coin Wash

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Used to come here when i was a college student living off campus. Now I'm a homeowner with my own washing machine but I just returned from 4 months traveling cross-country thru national parks etc. Discovered my house washing machine NOT working . 

So I came here. Everything worked fine but my blue pants came out of the wash with some lint or something on them. So I used the sink to rinse some of it off. 

An African-American mother & her daughter happened to stop in & she made the wrong assumption that I was a homeless person trying to wash my pants in the sink. 

She says to me "Can I pay for a load of wash for you ?" I say "huh ? It took me a moment to discern her misperception - putting 2 + 2 together .😎. I say "I'm NOT homeless" & tried to explain to her what I was doing.

 But then she said "me too". I said "you too what ?" This was like a comical "Who's on 1st" conversation. Anyways, thanks for caring about me lady but I'm fine 👌. 

Proud that I've done well in life by the grace of God but also personal initiative. I will NEVER QUIT until God takes me ✝ ❤ 🙏 

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9/5/21 Review of St Ann Cathedral, Great Falls MT

Unfortunately, not a very good experience as I was just passing through town I was here on Sunday morning so  i went  to St Anne's cathedral for noon service. Part of the problem is that here in Great Falls I don't find regular internet connection on my phone so I couldn't easily check the times of mass and so it was taking me awhile to find a place just to figure out the time for Catholic mass and then figure out where Saint Anne's Church is. 

 Beautiful ⛪ inside but I was a few minutes late & the black guy there who apparently is some kind of usher chided me for being late and then during the offering time he kind of gave me a disapproving side eye for not putting any money in the plate.  

I'm a traveler so I've always been under the impression by most churches if you're not a regular attendee you're not really expected to be putting money in the offering plate given the expenses it takes just to be traveling all the time. & I'm NOT a millionaire. I do have a budget.

 So I just kind of felt bad about the experience & the atmosphere and I left a little early and probably won't be back there for sometime 😞. By the way a lady in shorts came in after me and I didn't notice the black guy  showing any disapproval towards her. Why picking only on me ?