The Nasty Botsfords

Yes, that was so weird that time when I was talking to Lynda and her mother and her mother was saying something about how she had heard about my parents and knew that my parents became missionaries because of being failures as assistant pastors in San Bernardino. Are not all missionaries failures at pastoring and that is why they run away to the mission field, because they could not make a success of pastoring? What could be better than managing your own little pastoral kingdom of which you are the sole dictator? What a weird thing for a pastor's wife to say, almost as if she were in touch with some cranky critics of the former pastoral administration at a nearby rival church. She did not say exactly who she got that stuff came from but it sounded really nasty to me. It is rather awkward to have a college friend who is really my enemy. And anyway, the Botsfords are from Kansas. We all know that these Kansas invaders think they know everything, imagine themselves as superior to the Southern California slummers and went to Southern California for the specific purpose of reforming the California district, as if Kansas were really home, as if Kansas really represented white people. Ha! No, Kansas does not represent the white people of Southern California. Kansas represents the Midwestern fantasy of Southern California as mostly fruits and nuts.