Wife and Kids

For the past several years I've done some sporadic writing for Sunday School curriculum. It hasn't been something I've pursued heavily, but it has been nice now and then to write for publication.

Not too long ago, I discovered they purchased an article I wrote about giving up pop. I couldn't really remember exactly what I said, so I was excited to receive the packet of papers in the mail that included the copy of what I wrote. I sat down and rummaged through until I found the one that contained my article.

There it was, so pretty on the page. I believe the title was "A Cola-less Commitment" - and my name right underneath. Pretty picture of a pop bottle...

...and the article started out with a sentence about my wife and kids.

Ummmmmm......

I don't have a wife or kids???

Turns out that the week before, the article in that location was written by a guy...who has a wife and kids. They changed the title, author and picture but not the content of the article.

I laughed about it. What else can you do? Other than hope that those reading don't think I actually have a wife and kids. (Surely the lack of ANY mention of cola in the article would allow the reader to understand the mistake.)

But then today I had a message on my answering machine at home. It was some dental office wanting to schedule cleanings for my kids.

Ummmm....is there something I should know??