Bringing Back Chivalry One DRE at a time

Last week, the members of D-House went on a retreat with the DREs of the Diocese of Wilmington at a hotel in Ocean City, MD. It was a beautiful and relaxing couple of days drinking tea, catching up on life and the kids, oh and praying the Scriptures. Anyway, you can probably guess the female to male ratio in attendance and that plays a role in these next two stories here.

1) On the last night, a group of us went out to dinner at a local restaurant. This group consisted of 13 DREs....and myself. While we are out to dinner, this man grabs the back of my chair and says in a gruff voice, "Are all of these women yours?" I jokingly respond, "Why yes they are!" The table bursts out laughing and he goes, "Wow. What a lucky guy. Keep it up." Then he walks away. One of the DREs turns to me and says, "He's a Knight of Columbus." Ha. Weird.

2) After the final presentations of Thursday night, a group of us go to the hotel bar to discuss theology over a couple drinks. This group only consisted of 8 DREs...and myself. Someone is playing the piano, people form dancing lines, tambourines are shaken and drums are drummed-all in all a good time. While we are just chilling at the table, one of the DREs says, "Tae, you got to protect me from that guy over there. He's really creeping us out." Turns out that there was this older gentleman there who was checking out the DREs at our table. He comes over to me and asks if all of these women are "mine"-to which I respond yes. I ask him if I could get him a drink and he says, "I only want to know one thing! How did you get all these beautiful women? Especially that redhead! She's amazing". I simply replied, "Luck. God is good I guess. " He asks me for my name and I tell him. He goes, "Tang? Big Daddy Tang!!!" All of us are laughing about my new nickname but before he can say any more ludicrous things about the ladies (or at least to them)-I send him away bewildered on how I can be surrounded by such beautiful women.