Another anecdote from my life...

Last Saturday at our church’s Valentines’ Banquet, they played a game where they asked some couples what TV show their marriage was most like: “The Honeymooners,” “I Love Lucy,” or “Leave it to Beaver.” Jordan and I didn’t have to answer the question, but I thought to myself that if they had asked us, I would have to say that we are like “I Love Lucy” because Jordan is the husband who has it all together and I’m the wife who keeps getting herself into scrapes. :) So, now I will share with you the latest scrape I got myself into:
Kelly Curell is the man who is in charge of the grounds here at Northland. He is a great guy who somehow manages to do something (or say something) to make me laugh every day. So, on Monday morning this week, Kelly came in to the office to sit and chat. Usually all the guys spend the first part of each morning in the main office chatting. Kelly was sitting right by my desk, so I asked him what he thought of the Artist Series. Now, you have to understand that in the Maintenance Office, opera is not very favorably looked upon. So I was interested to hear their take on the Artist Series, which consisted largely of opera music. Then Kelly told me that he actually hadn’t gone to the Artist Series because his parents were up visiting them that weekend. From there, our conversation proceeded like this…
Jenn: “It was a pretty good concert.”
Jon (one of the other guys that work there): “Yeah, but it was a lot of opera.”
Jenn: “But they had some really nice selections from the opera. Did you notice the reaction of the audience when Mr. Habing sang ‘Mi Mancheri.' You could hear lots of people whispering Josh Groban’s name.”
Kelly: “Josh Groban? Who’s that?”
Jenn: “You don’t know who Josh Groban is? He’s a singer. He sings a lot of opera. Some of his music is good, but some of it isn’t really that great. He’s got a very highly trained voice, though, and it’s really nice to listen to. I just mentioned it cause I thought it was interesting that Mr. Habing sang one of his songs.”
Kelly: “Well, I sure wouldn’t have known who Josh Groban was.”
Now, I understand that not everyone knows who Josh Groban is. But it did seem strange to me that not ONE of the guys in the office knew who he was. So, I would have just let it go; but for some reason, things escalated from there very quickly. Here's a picture of him, if you're not very familiar with who he is:

At this point, Mr. Krzywicki (the director of Maintenance) played one of Josh Groban’s songs that he had found on the internet.
Kelly: “I definitely have never heard him or heard of him.”
Jenn: “Well, I bet your girls know who he is.” (Kelly has 4 daughters that go to the Christian school close by Northland. I figured that there was a good chance they would have heard of Josh Groban at school from one of their friends, at least.)
Kelly: “I bet they don’t have any idea who he is. I’ll make you a bet. I’ll ask them tonight if they know who he is, and if they do, I’ll buy you an ice cream. But if they don’t, you’ll have to buy me one. I’m positive my two youngest girls won’t know who he is, but my older girls might.”
Jenn (a little hesitantly): “Okay.”
That was on Monday. Jordan wasn’t too excited about my making bets that cost money, so I was a little worried about how this little problem of mine was going to play out. On Tuesday, Kelly took the day off to go snowmobiling, so I didn’t get to hear the outcome of the bet until Wednesday. On Wednesday, this is the story Kelly told me,
“On Monday night I went home and asked my girls if they knew who Josh Groban was. The older three girls had no idea who he was, but my youngest one, Kendra, said, “Oh yeah! I know! He’s a singer!” I said, “Kendra, how do you know who Josh Groban is?” “Well,” said Kendra, “Today on the way home from school I was showing my friend Hannah the journal that Grandma gave me this weekend. One of the questions in it was ‘Who is your favorite singer?’ and I didn’t know what to put, so I asked Hannah. And Hannah said, ‘Do you remember that guy we were listening to at my house the other day? That was Josh Groban. You should write him down in your book.’ So, I did.”
Kelly was so amazed that his YOUNGEST daughter (who is 11 years old) would be the only one out of the four girls that would know who Josh Groban was that he called Kendra’s friend, Hannah to make sure that she really knew who Josh Groban was. It turned out that Kendra’s story was true.
So, Lucy made it out of her scrape and even got an ice cream sundae as a result! What was really amazing about this whole thing was that Kelly would have won the bet if Kendra hadn’t heard about Josh Groban for the very first time that very afternoon! And like Ricky in the "I Love Lucy" shows, Jordan laughed at me and told me not to do that again. :)