TheCrazySquirrel

Dear insurance people and my boss, THIS POST IS BEING POSTED ALMOST 1 YEAR AFTER THE FACT. I have sense learned my lesson and would never do anything like this again. :)

Five trips from Church to pick up Burmese - 91 miles
Ten times through the toll both on the way with no toll tag - $15.00
Learning that a 7 passenger Chevy Suburban can actually fit up to 19 Burmese people and 1 driver -PRICELESS!

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I helped pick up people for the Burmese church that meets in the afternoon here at my church. There are a bunch of Burmese (Myanmar) refugee’s that are coming to Houston. A lot of them (that go to this church) don’t have cars. That means we have a slight problem of finding a way to get 120+ people here by 3pm on Sunday.

Today there was a bit of a hitch in the system. It seems someone took both of the vans and didn’t tell us. So we ended up with a different van and a suburban. I got the suburban and was given an address to an apartment complex. I was expecting to go to this place once at 2pm, maybe twice because I didn’t have a 15 passenger van, and then go to the second address I was given by 2:30. Instead I drove up and there were 40-50 people waiting outside to come to church. I had a 7 passenger suburban…not including myself. There was the passenger seat, 3 person middle seat, and the 3 person back seat. Plus there was the storage area behind that.

Now you might not know this, but if you try real hard you can fit more than 7 people in that suburban. You can fit 20 (including the driver)…at least…if you use the storage part in the back and have kids sit on top of everyone else. If you are naturally smaller that helps as well. No one spoke English, so as I was telling them “That is enough I will come back.” and “ok no more people I will come back to get you.” they all just kept pilling in the suburban. No one could understand me, I was running short on time, so I just went. When I got to the church I started counting 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-….how many people… 12-13-14…can fit inside a …15-16-17…suburban…holy monkey there are more people in there - 18-19 (and 20 including myself).

WOW. 20 people in one suburban. Do you think that goes against any insurance policy or diving laws? I rehearsed what I would say to the cop that pulled me over: “Listen if you can get them to get out I would appreciate it. I just pulled up to a apartment and they all got in as I was saying to stop and no one understands English and I am a minister and I have to be back at the church so I just came anyway.”

So how many people can you fit into a suburban? I challenge you to fit more and take a picture and post it!!