Angels at the Pump? Why not?

Remember the guardian angels who volunteered to fill up people's tanks during the DC Sniper scare?  They actually had a hard time convincing people that they would do this for them for free.  It took real coaxing and selling, at least until it caught on and people realized they were providing a real service.  People just don't believe you can get good service at the pump anymore.  
Maybe we can change that.

What if we could end the pain at the pump today  by offering a different sort of angel service?
 It would not be free, but it could be fun, and it might bring back the old feeling of real full service.
(Anybody remember those days?)


Pump Angels
A pampering service for both the car and the car owner.  A group of 5 or so "angels" , probably teenagers (this is a summertime business) would pump your gas while escorting you up a red carpet (laid out just for you) to a nice little pampering area for yourself nearby- under an awning in the shade, with fans blowing and soothing music playing, and..... a massage chair!  
Your angels would serve you iced green tea or mineral water and you could take a couple of minutes to relax while your tank is filled, your windows washed, and an extra perk, a little bit of extra rub down for your car. A sort of synchronized dance around your car as you listen to your music, sip your tea, and get your massage from the chair, under a cool fan.
And schwag!  Gotta get the schwag!  You keep the cute plastic cup the tea comes in (with the Pump Angel logo on it of course). You get an ice cold towel (again with the logo) to pat yourself with as you're being pampered, (I can just see you carrying it around with you at they gym) and, we give you a bumper sticker (20% off if you let us put it on your car).
One more perk:  Your angels will pose with you in your massage chair and/ or at your car while we take your picture with your phone, so you can brag about it to everyone, (and of course post it on the Fan Page... for "angel points")
No it is not cheap. It's about 25 bucks.  But hey, you're paying so much for gas, what's another 25 bucks?  It's way worth it for all that service! 
Naw, it's not real. Just a crazy (according to my husband) idea I had today.  
By the way, I checked at Go Daddy.  PumpAngels.com is available!

Think of the slogans you could use...they're endless!
"Get serviced by Pump Angels"
"Pump Angels fill you up with Love"
"Pumped and Pampered by an Angel"
"Get gas with pleasure"
"Have fun at the pump"
"Have you been pumped by your Angels today?"

Photo inset: Red Jaguar XK140

 by pedrosimoes7 on Flickr

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Praying from the Red

I Can’t find a way out of this! I am so desperate! Please God Help me!

Ever felt that way? I call it “Praying from the red”… a sort of 'last ditch' effort to turn to God. No nurtured spiritual strength to draw on, we wait until there is little or no hope for our pitiful situation to ask God for help.

Daily prayer, a habit, is how I suggest we keep our spiritual “reserve” from falling into the Red in the first place. I sometimes get to that place, and only then am I able to remind myself that prayer works. But “best if used everyday” rather more like a vitamin than a pain killer.

How exactly do Angels work? I have a theory that in heaven everything is quite well organized. Not by time or space, but by the type of needs we have in prayer.

World War 2 for example might be in the same “room” as 9.11. Same angels, trained in handling, say, sudden mass loss of life due to human intent, might be the ones assigned to that room….and since that’s a significantly more stressful situation than, say, saving little Julie’s dog from injuries resulting in being hit by a car, that the angels might rotate….not that they are human and would be stressed out to the max… necessarily, just that it seems any “being” might need to be exposed to equal amounts of joy to counter such sorrow.


Do you ever wonder how many times you’ve been “saved” by God and his angels? The “near misses” you might never notice? I can picture in my mind a sort of organized chaos going on….like it’s God on the loud speaker at Wal-Mart:

“Impending car wreck on aisle 5: Unscheduled loss off life probable: all available certified wreck avoiding angels please assist!

Or maybe something like

“Baby breach sector 8: Angels needed to guide doctors, calm parents, and save baby”

Ever want to just thank God for, you know, whatever he might have done for you that you don’t know about… Sort of a general thank you prayer? Like on It’s a Wonderful Life when Clarence reminds George of certain times in his life when God was with him. Don’t we all kind of want to know about those times for ourselves? What makes that movie so popular if that isn’t at least a big part of it?