So my friend Nancy and I were sitting in church last night when the pastor asked the congregation to "Tell me something good". Basically, he's fishing for praises and encouraging news, which is a nice way to begin the service instead of the usual dreary barrage of prayer requests.
This woman pops up and says:
"I have good news about Iraq! My nephew's over there right now, and he's been there for about a year. He said that when he first got there, they were finding an average of 3000 IUD's a day, and now they're finding only about 100 IUD's a day!"
Everyone applauds enthusiastically!
At this point, I'm thinking... ummm, this doesn't sound right...
Then our children's pastor tentatively raised his hand, and with a confused look, he said, "sorry to sound stupid, but what's an IUD?"
To this question, the response was a cacophony of replies to the effect of "roadside bombs" and "improvised devices, unexploded or something like that".
Then it hit me. Nancy and I just looked at each other and were like... Oh. My. Gosh. Don't they mean IED's? An improvised explosive device? Because an IUD is something totally different!
Imagine American soldiers finding IUD's laying all around Iraq.
Nancy and I faced an explosion of our own as only the two of us burst into laughter, then were subsequently useless for the rest of the service.
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