Holding onto Your Mint Condition

Last night I had the pleasure of hanging out with a couple guys from church at Caribou Coffee. I say pleasure not so much because of the people but because of the warm, cabin-like feel of this particular coffee joint and because I had the good fortune to try a little drink they call "Mint Condition." Yes, the name is very cheezy (I meant to use a "z" because I never get to and I like them) but one drink of this sweet nectar and you wouldn't care if they called it "A Cup of Pure Bliss."

The three of us were having a good time discussing how we're all sissies and don't like scary movies and whether or not ghosts are real and what form they take. How we got there I have no idea, but I do know that if you go to Caribou right now and fork over some jack they'll lay a nice Mint Condition on you with a smile!

So anyway, one of the guys (let's just call him ... Al Stewart) brought up the fact that he's a procrastinator. I can definately identify with this. My mantra in college was if I was done with a paper more than an hour before it was due then I had to sit in time out. Well Al had called about paying his tuition for the spring semester and they informed him that he had been dropped from all his classes because he had waited so long to pay. He promply infomed the person he was talking to that they had dropped significantly on his "top 100 friends list" and then asked if they could get him back in his classes. He said he was able to get back into all of them and Zac and I released the breath we had been holding throughout the meandering course of the story.

"Maybe if you hadn't gotten back in your classes you would have learned your lesson about procrastinating," I remarked haughtily.
"Oh, I learned that lesson last semester," Al responded.

So I wrote all this because I thought his comment was pretty funny but also true of how we all live at least some of the time. We learn lessons from life, books, teachers, or our moms and even though we understand them and think they're true we never really apply them to our lives. And a lesson learned and not applied is about as good as a Mint Condition that slips from your grasp and disperses itself on the carpet.