Deceived

My roommate invited a few people over to our house for Easter dinner yesterday. One of the guys that showed up was someone I had never met before. He came right in and introduced himself to me, and started to chat, but someone else came along and interrupted. Somehow the word got out that there was a gathering of people at our house, and it seemed like half the ward ended up at the dinner, including the Elder's Quorum President, who I found myself talking to. During the conversation he took note of the BYU slippers I was sporting, and told me that he had "heard from someone" that I'm a BYU football fan. Then he pointed out the stranger from earlier and told me that I should head over and talk to him, because he also loves BYU football. In fact, he was really kind of getting pushy about it. I don't like feeling like one man is pawning me off on another, so I just kind of wandered away, and the EQP eventually made his exit for the evening.

It was really only a few minutes after the EQP's exit that the stranger decided to reapproach. He came over and started chatting, and he also made mention of the BYU slippers. I was being very nice to him, and even over looked the condescending little "oh you're a Utah County girl" remark when he found out where I'm from. He acknowledged that he's from Salt Lake (I'm guessing he's one of the snobby Mormon elite from the East Bench), but still I persisted in being nice to this person, and allowed the conversation to continue. Right up until the point that he got a mean look on his face and told me "I honestly don't know why anyone would have anything to do with BYU, and I mean it. I really don't understand it at all." That's when I realized that the EQP LIED TO ME, and sent me over to talk to one of those jerk utes.

I told him that I felt the same way about the u. He actually looked kind of surprised, and then said something like "well you're from Utah, so you know how it is. You know I'm not kidding." There was some other guy there whose a bit more of a diplomat about these things who interrupted and allowed the annoying ute to blab on and on about the Fiesta Bowl. The ute told me on his way out the door that I need to "take some time to think about my beliefs." I requested that he do the same.

After everyone left I was telling my roommate about how I had been deceived by the EQP, and roped into actually conversing with someone who I would have diligently avoided had I known. The ute was right about one thing, the people from out-of-state don't really get it. My roommate gave me a big speech about how she's positive that the ute didn't mean it, and was just trying to be funny. Despite the fact that I told her that the ute even openly acknowledged that because I'm from Utah I get it, and I know he means what he says, my roommate blindly insisted that he was joking, and that it's all in fun.