I can't imagine how difficult it must be to be a Sister Missionary in a bike area.
Monday, March 22, 2010
On Sister Missionaries, Their Hair, and Bike Helmets
I can't imagine how difficult it must be to be a Sister Missionary in a bike area.
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There is no comment I can make about this comic that wouldn't get me in trouble with various people. I applaud your willingness to tackle such a politically and socially divisive issue as hair and tardiness among the genders.
ReplyDeleteAll I will say is after I rode a bike for a month I needed some new suit pants. I was very happy when our bikes were stolen.
ReplyDeleteI was a sister in a bike area and the biggest problem I had were skirts getting caught in the chain! You couldn't have too short a skirt or too tight a skirt otherwise you couldn't peddle, but then the loose enough ones got caught in the chain! Then I served in England where it seemed to rain quite a bit. Rain+Bike+skirt=FUN!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm with Eric here. I'm surprised I haven't seen any angry comments from former sister missionaries. I, for one, think it's hilarious.
ReplyDeleteI was one of those sister missionaries in a bike area for 8 months in Salisbury, Maryland at the bottom of the Philly mission back in '93 and '94. I got to experience the humid, hot summers AND humid, freezing cold winters during that time. Lucky me, right?! I took the opportunity to grow out my bangs for the first time in my life in that area and so I always wore it up in a barrette or headband of some kind. So, that took care of the pesky hair issue for the most part. However, not ONCE did we wear helmets. I don't know how that happened, why no one ever mentioned it to us, or why it didn't occur to me. But no one ever told me to and so I never did. Crazy, huh?! Now that I look back on it, I'm sure thankful I never got in a wreck! :)
ReplyDeleteP.S. My only question is the one I had back then also: Why were the Sisters in the bike area when the Elders had the car? I'm really not bitter, I just never understood that...
P.P.S. Jena, I also think it's hilarious. I figure it's all fair game on this blog. :)
I never had the problem with my dress / skirt getting caught in the chain though. The other sister RM above me probably didn't have the cool button-up-the-front A-line skirts and flower print dresses that I wore back then though. I. looked. AWESOME. ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the comments--especially the sister missionary stories.
ReplyDeleteI failed to disclose when I posted this strip earlier this morning that this gag was inspired from an idea given me by my former sister missionary sister-in-law. She's kind of my go-to person for sister missionary gags.
There's a reason you've never seen my mission pictures...I was in bike areas for 12 months (winter in the Alps was fun!!). At one point I just had my companion chop my hair off to my chin, and then I flipped my head upside down to cut myself layers. Each morning I put a little hair gel on my towl dried layers, and I let the bike helmet and breeze do the rest!
ReplyDeleteI also biked as a sister, but I had sweaty bangs that stuck out the front holes of the helmet. Note: this is an awesome thing for strangers to stare at when you OYM them. I always wondered why they didn't give a little MTC training on biking in a skirt because for the first month I almost fell over whenever we stopped and started. I do support biking while serving in theMid-west because the members are so nice and feed you a ton. America's dairyland is not calorie free so I was happy to do more than just eat and sit.
ReplyDeleteSo, my kids were finding the missing picutres in the April Friend that just came out and..I was so excited to see your name at the top of it Arie! You are so famous! My kids were very impressed that I knew you and that you are Jena and Joels big brother!
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