--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great story Judy.
> > I was at the TM facility in Asbury Park some years back; > it was a pretty fancy hotel that the TMO had bought and > was running *as* a hotel for regular guests, as well as > housing various TM administrative folks and course > participants. > > The TMers' food was prepared in the downstairs kitchen, > all vegetarian, but there was a bigger kitchen upstairs > that cooked for the guests. > > One night I was sitting at a table of TM-lifers during > dinner. The hotel was hosting a big Bar Mitzvah bash. > One of the MAV-technicians, a big galoot of a guy with > a heart of gold who regarded the bliss-ninnies with > good-humored puzzlement, had gone up to the guest > kitchen to see if he could cadge some real food from > one of the staff, a friend of his. > > So we were sitting there eating our lentils and rice > and curried cauliflower, and he walks into the dining > hall bearing a big platter. He came up to our table > to join us and put down the plate, on which rested a > gigantic hunk of very rare steak. > > You'd have thought there was a severed human hand on > the plate. The TM-lifers all gasped audibly, and one > of the more delicate of the ladies actually gave out > a little shriek. This was *completely* spontaneous; > these folks probably hadn't even laid eyes on a piece > of meat for years, and that bloody slab really must > have been kind of a shocking sight. > > The poor MA-V guy was baffled. Then everybody started > laughing, practically falling out of their chairs. We > laughed until we cried, including the MA-V guy, once he > realized we weren't laughing at *him* but at our own > reaction. > > It was just bizarre, one of the funniest occasions I've > ever experienced in a TM context > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
