Hanging of the Greens

Hazel Knotwith was sitting in the non-hearing section, as usual. Wait staff usually ask “Smoking or non-smoking?” but at The Methodist, the ushers ask “Hearing, or non-hearing?” Certain women of a certain age like to sit in the non-hearing section so they can say to one another, “I can’t hear; can you hear?”

At announcements time, Pastor Patty announced the Hanging of the Greens.

“I don’t know the Greens,” said Hazel, in a non-hearing section volume, “but it seems a bit extreme.”