When I was a kid we would go to Bible camp and it was like a homestead frontier little house on the prairie style Bible camp not like a mountains and pine tree Bible camp for the fancy rich kids and so we

would go out there and I really did enjoy this very much but you know like most kids I'm a little socially afraid especially of like the

girl that you have a crush on and I was maybe 14 at this point maybe 15 and I had a

crush on this girl named Amber she was just lovely and sweet and really was just a very nice girl and I thought well I'm a nice boy that could work out and so the deal was that we were going to do a traditional box social and the way this works is that the

ladies go and they make a little box lunch and put all the touches on it and they decorate the

little box and then the last day of camp they come out and they line up all the boxes and they stand behind them and all the boys get to bid on the privilege of buying that box lunch and in doing so you get to have lunch with the girl who made it.

So I had a plan. I need to win that

box lunch and then I can sit with Amber and we can talk and no doubt fall deeply in

love. And the currency that we were using to make these purchases was some kind of Bible Jesus buck thing I don't know what they called it the camp bucks you got by memorizing Bible verses I wasn't too shabby at memorizing Bible verses and so they gave us this sheet, and I realized

the more of these I memorize,

the less chance I have of being outbid.

So I memorized the entire sheet, all of it.

And then I thought, mmm, somebody else might catch up with me. I'm going to go in secret

and ask the camp director to give me more verses to memorize. It's not like they're going to say no,

it's Bible verses at a Bible camp. So I memorized copious amounts of Bible that week.

In fact, a lot of the Bible that I quickly recall and still have rattling around in my head is from trying to buy Amber's box lunch.

So I won hands down.

I was a Jesus Bible buck billionaire and I was going to tycoon my way into this thing

working out. So we line up all the boxes and the bidding starts and the poor poppers who only memorize like John 1135 got their crappy box lunch, but I was lining up to get the beautiful box lunch made by Amber

And we're coming all the way down to hers and hers is gonna be the last one that we're gonna bid on and

The numbers the math somehow didn't quite work outright and so the the last

camper who had a box out there was her and there's me and this other guy and I'm

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