Sometimes I think I've heard it all during my harp career. Drunken groomsmen requesting "Wipeout" or the theme song from Monday Night Football (really). A little girl getting the courage to get close enough to me to ask where I got my shoes. One genius asking, seriously, how long I'd been playing the cello. And another asking how I was related to Harpo Marx. Whaat?
But this one took the cake.
I was asked to play for the Rotary Club's Service Above Self Luncheon. Mankato's business elite were there, the esteemed winners were being interviewed for television, and Don Shelby (WCCO-TV anchor and reporter) was prepping his keynote speech.
Suddenly there was a hand on my right shoulder and a deep voice whispering right into my ear, "Young lady, I'd like to have you..."
(and dramatically paused right there, I kid you not)
"...in church."
You can't imagine what went through my mind, first being that I hope the news cameraman didn't catch the look on my face or the reflex clench of my fist getting ready to deck the guy before I turned around to see that it was just a kindly older gentleman holding his heart and clearly moved by music.
Whew. I managed to keep it together through the rest of the luncheon but called several friends on my way home in hysterics.
Always interesting.
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