i live in a 'downtown' apartment, across the street from the oldest catholic church in iowa. the church's offices are located on the second floor of our building, and i'm pretty sure the priests live in my building.

the church keeps normal hours - 8:30-4:30 during the week, i'm pretty sure.

because of the layout of my building and the location of the lot i park in, i generally stop my elevator at the second floor, and then walk through the church office lobby, down the stairs and to my parking lot...it probably saves about six seconds compared to a trip all the way down to the first floor.

as i was returning to work from lunch today, i noticed three cans on the table in the church lobby. they looked familiar.

i returned home from work, and left the house again today at about 9:30. the cans were still there. nobody was in the office, so i inspected the cans further.

indeed, they were three empty bud light cans.

either somebody did a little drinkee drinkee over the weekend in the church office, or one of the secretaries got hammered today and forgot to clean up after herself.

or maybe father mcguire was just having a rough day.

either way, a notable occurence.