Wat ons gekoop het ons eerste (en slegs) "Luukse" car back when hurricane Floyd nailed the east coast of the U.S. We got a LOT of rain here in New Jersey and n paar dae geslaag before life returned to normal. Just before Floyd struck, ons het 'n aanbod vir 'n gebruikte Volvo 850 GL en na Floyd getref, gery het dit in die huis.

It was our first car with a CD player. Like most new car owners, ons het 'n bietjie CD crazy, revived our dormant CD collection and went on long drives just to listen to CD’s in the car. Like all fads, this passed for us and we ended listening to the same CD over and over again. In ons geval, dit was Jesus Christ Superstar.

Een van die (baie) briljante stukke in daardie rock opera gesing deur die vestiging godsdienstige tipes, gelei deur Kajafas, the "High Priest". They sing their way into deciding how to handle the "Jesus problem" and Caiaphas directs them to the conclusion that "Jesus must die". The refrain on the song is "Just must die, Moet sterf, Moet sterf, this Jesus must die". You hear that refrain a lot in that piece.

Op die oomblik, my son was about three years old. You can probably see where this is going.

I came home from work one day and my son is in the living room playing with toys and humming to himself. I’m taking off my jacket, soek deur die pos en al my gewone loop-in-die-deur goed en het ek skielik besef dat hy net sê, nie regtig sing: "Jesus moet sterf, Moet sterf, must die." I was mortified. I could just see him doing that while on one of his baby play dates at a friend’s house — waarskynlik die laaste toneelstuk datum met wat baba vriend.

We pulled that CD out of the Volvo after that 🙂

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