My mother, sister, bother-in-law and myself were driving to Christmas Eve Mass to save seats for the 11 of us (mom, dad, bother, sister-in-law, nephew, sister, brother-in-law, a polish social worker, two polish college students, and myself).
I had mixed feelings about saving seats until I heard the story of our neighbors a few years earlier at the same mass.
An alter boy was lighting the candles on the alter. Some how one of the candles caught some of the other decorations on fire.
Our friends were seated in the front row and sprung into action. They dashed to the alter with coats in had to smother the fire.
After the fire was put out and order restored, they returned to their seats, to only find someone has taken them.

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