I'm not Catholic, but I like pretending I am, and so I gave up sweets this year for lent (which has worked out great - it's been a great excuse for when I DON'T really want to accept someone's nice gift of donuts and cupcakes at work)... but I have definitely missed Easter candy this year. Easter candy is fantastic! And so - tomorrow is Easter, which marks the end of lent, which of course means I can have Easter candy tomorrow!... in the spirit of lent and Easter, I just had the following conversation with Mike...
Chrissy: would it be wrong to bust out a bag of jelly beans at Mass tomorrow?
Mike: well yeah, you can't do that because you're supposed to fast until you have communion.
Chrissy: but I'm not Catholic, so I can't have communion...
Mike: I don't know how that works, but I'm sure it's the same. and anyway, you would still have to wait until you got outside after Mass. it's not like you can have communion and then pop in a piece of gum.
Chrissy: why not??!
Mike: well for one thing you just committed an act of cannibalism because Catholics believe you're really eating the body of Jesus.
Chrissy: in that case, what if you're just trying to get the taste of human flesh out of your mouth?
Mike: I'm sure fresh breath spray would be ok!
