Mixed Marriages
Jan 27th, 2007 by ZuppeKing
We get a lot of guests at Town Creek Bed and Breakfast., upwards of 2000 per year. About 1/3 of all those guests tell us they chose Town Creek because we serve a full gourmet breakfast which makes us a “Bed & Breakfast”… not a “Bed & ?” that serves day old muffins… or a “Bed & ” that is just a bed. Plus breakfast is not all that is served up around the breakfast table either. Lively discussion is usually the true order of the day.
Sure a few guests are still groggy from all the deep relaxing sleep that goes on around here but by-in-large most guests are bright-eyed and ready for the lively chat comes at breakfast time. The topics of discussion have covered every subject imaginable except we purposely steer it away from politics and religion. When a guest starts going down the road of one of those two discussion taboos the ZuppeQueen immediately changes the subject and redirects the whole table’s conversation. Our breakfast table is supposed to be a no conflict zone.
Yesterday however, the breakfast group got on the subject of mixed marriages. Yes, no, and indifferent, the opinions were all over the place. One guest even suggested that a mixed marriage where he now lives [which is in Kansas] is when a person marries someone from Missouri.
After the laughter died down someone from Dallas then offered that a mixed marriage was when someone from Texas married ANYONE not from Texas. More laughter. Now I understand that statement very well because I have a mixed marriage. The ZuppeQueen hails from Oakland California. Ok, I can accept diversity with the best of them. Then the ZuppeQueen herself offered up a rather profound and true observation by saying that in Fredericksburg Texas a mixed marriage was when a Catholic married a Lutheran.
I had to admit she was right. There are two cemetaries in the older historical part of Fredericksburg, Catholic and Lutheran…. they are on the fringes of the opposite ends of town and could not be further apart. It was that way one hundred-fifty years ago and it is that way today.