The Great Anti-Lottery Sign Tour

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My day:

  • 6:50AM – Leave home
  • 8:13AM – Pick up 700 No Lottery signs at Granny White Church of Christ
  • 9:32AM – Deliver 50 signs to an address outside of Lebanon, TN
  • 10:31AM – Deliver 100 signs to Willow Ave Church of Christ, Cookeville, TN
  • 10:54AM – Deliver 50 signs to an individual at the Putnam County Justice Building in Cookeville, TN.
  • 11:38AM – Met individual in Wal-Mart parking lot in Sparta, TN, to deliver 500 signs.
  • Back to MJ by 12:50PM

I don’t know why I kept up with this. I took digital pictures of each of the places I delivered signs to. So, the timestamp on the picture shows when I was there.
Some thoughts: Cookeville has every restaurant known to man within a 2 mile stretch on exit 287. And I mean EVERYTHING.
2 of the individuals I met weren’t affliliated with the church of Christ, yet they seemed friendlier than the other “church of Christ” people. I don’t know why that is….
When I was up at the Justice Building in Cookeville, I noticed 2 Spanish-looking men talking to a lady behind a window. She was chewing them out because they didn’t understand something. She mentioned something about learning to speak English. I felt it was rude of her, but typical of someone living in a semi-rural part of the south who hadn’t been forced to travel to a different country to experience different cultures. We treat individuals who don’t necessarily speak English fluently with less respect. It would have helped if there was some type of translator standing by (this was a building of courts; there were probably some available). Anyways I’m not sure what these people wanted, so it’s really none of my business. I just wish this particular lady hadn’t been rude to them.
I don’t know if I should feel bad for not believing in this anti-lottery movement more. Like I said before, I’m not loosing sleep over it. I have yet to see book, chapter, verse which tells me that lotteries are sinful. Yes, it probably brings about bad things in society. But then again, lots of other things can do this too. And we aren’t exactly vigorously campaigning against those things. Should I feel bad for putting effort behind something that I’m not 100% behind?