{"id":330,"date":"2012-08-18T05:49:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T05:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/?p=330"},"modified":"2012-10-07T04:05:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T04:05:46","slug":"the-coffin-in-my-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/index.php\/the-coffin-in-my-car\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coffin in my Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m a missionary kid (MK). For those of you who aren\u2019t familiar with MK\u2019s, we are a very very<\/em> odd bunch. <\/p>\n

In my case, a lot of my oddness comes from a coffin that we carried in our station wagon. <\/p>\n

Okay, it wasn\u2019t actually a COFFIN, but it sure looked like one. <\/p>\n

\"Black<\/a>

This is *not* the coffin in my parent’s car. Other than the fact that the actual
\nbox was rectangular, this looks eerily similar.<\/p><\/div>Basically, before we could go be missionaries to St. Thomas, USVI, we had to raise the funds to support our missionary work. That meant driving all over the Southeastern United States, visiting churches, making a presentation, and asking them to pledge money to support our mission. It also meant I had to be a perfect little kid, but that\u2019s another story.<\/p>\n

During my formative years (ages 6-9) we had a station wagon. And in the back of that station wagon we carried a black wooden box. In that black box was a \u201cHell Countdown\u201d (or something like that; I can\u2019t remember the exact name, and I can\u2019t find one on google). My parents would remove it from its box and cart it to the front of a church and plug it in, and it would show in big, bright, red, scoreboard-like letters the number of souls going to hell right that very second. Very scary to a kid, all those numbers ticking by and counting up.<\/p>\n

And the best part? We\u2019d stop at gas stations, what have you, and people would ask if that there box was a coffin.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure my father\u2019s answer went something like this: \u201cUm, why yes, I am traveling around the country with my two young daughters and my wife, and my great-aunt\u2019s dying wish involved me carting her body around in the back of my station wagon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Course, the real answer, \u201coh, it\u2019s actually a clock that tells you how many souls are going to hell at any given moment\u201d, isn\u2019t any better.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t remember a lot about my childhood, but this I remember vividly. It looms large. The embarrassment over a box mistaken for a coffin. The souls going to hell. The freaking coffin RIGHT BEHIND ME as we drove all over the highways and byways of America. <\/p>\n

I recently asked my mother about this, and her response? \u201cOh, we only did that once.\u201d <\/p>\n

Once?!?!? ONCE!?!??!?!? <\/p>\n

I still don\u2019t even know why or where we got that thing. Or where it went.<\/p>\n

Actually, it probably went straight to hell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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