The curse of the mobile
If you had to think of the worst possible moment for your mobile phone to ring – I wonder what it would be? Every time I record a radio broadcast, I live in dread of forgetting to turn my mobile off. Equally, it would be seriously embarrassing to have it go off during a prayer meeting or whilst preaching. Can you imagine, though, the awkwardness if it went off during a funeral?
Mourners at St Margaret’s Church, Rottingdean, don’t have to imagine. At a funeral service last week somebody had forgotten to switch their mobile off. That would have been bad enough, but would you care to hazard a guess as to the offending ring-tone? Whilst many tracks spring to mind, the Bee Gees’ ‘staying alive’ is definitely not the best!
Confession is, apparently, good for the soul – so what have been your most awkward mobile moments? Time to share…
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My own mobile going off in my cassock pocket while leading a service.
Ooops – guessing that’s a bit obvious!
I have a pastor friend who decided to check his calls between a funeral service & the burial – needless to say he forgot to turn the phone off again and it rang while he was preaching by the open grave…
Dying to know what the ring tone was, though?
Not sure of the ring-tone – the last time I heard that Pastor cell phone it was the National Anthem of Malawi!
Not a tune I’d recognize, I have to confess!