From: John W. Senner, Arkansas Department of Health (jsenner [at] mail.doh.state.ar.us)
Date:  Wed Oct 21 07:16:48 1998
Subject: 

I was a student at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas.  Some time in
the middle of the night, the dorm parent knocked on my door saying that
my conservative Mennonite grandmother wanted to talk to me on the
telephone.  I feared terrible family news of some sort, but instead
heard "Boy, get down on your knees and pray - the stars are falling out
of the sky and the world is coming to an end."  I said, "Go back to bed,
it's just a meteor shower.  It happens every year at this time, and the
world hasn't ended yet."

I stepped out of the dorm to look, but there were street lights, and it
was too cold to be out wearing only pajamas.  I saw a few meteors and
went back to bed myself.

Years later, I realized what my grandmother must have seen and I missed.