Objects: A hat that is either too large or too small, a stumble (you will have to pretend to stumble over a step), and a slip (your head and arm slip off your leg which you were counting on as support.) The idea is that when you mess up a simple thing you may get a laugh, but they are not laughing with you but at your foolishness.

Good morning, boys and girls. (Trip over a step and pretend to stumble.) Oops! Now how did I miss that step? I have walked over it a thousand times. (Repeat walking up the step a couple of times and stumble at least once more.) Well, I'll have to practice that again when I have more time and there are not so many people here. This morning when I came to church I thought it was a little windy so I put my hand in the dark closet to get my hat (put on a much too …