Adventures in Pokemon Go

(I spent the morning exploring the area around me, finding pokestops and finding pokemon. One of my closest pokestops is at a small community church a few blocks from my house.)
Me: Sweet! An EGG!
Woman: (coming out of the church) Excuse me?
Me: (thinking ‘busted’) Yes?
Woman: People have been pulling up and looking at their phones and leaving all morning. What’s going on? Is it a scavenger hunt?
Me: Oh, uh, I guess, in a way it is? (I show her my phone and try to explain the game)
Woman: Look, they have our picture on here! And they got our pride flag in the shot, that’s so nice! I’m the pastor, should I put up a sign? “Welcome, Pokemon”?
Me: “Pokemon Trainers Welcome” might be a bit better, but sure.
Woman: What’s that?
Me: That’s a gym. It’s at the pizza parlor over by the park?
Woman: The pizza parlor gets a gym?
Me: That’s where people go to fight, they come here to get supplies and healing things.
Woman: Okay, that is more appropriate. I’m getting this game.

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