FAN FINDS MIRACLE IMAGE ON SOILED COLDPLAY NAPKIN
EXCLUSIVE: until September this year, Mandy Lyon was just an ordinary person. She went to work, drove her car, watched TV and hung around school playgrounds, just like you or me. But that was before Chris Martin walked into her life. Now, Mandy is just one of the growing number of people who are reporting miracles while in the presence of the one they are calling “the College-Rock Messiah”.
IDLE
Mandy was working as usual, waiting table’s in Turin’s Veronica Cafe, and looking forward to finishing her shift. Her favourite band, Coldplay, were playing a show that night, and she had tickets. She’d waited month for the concert, but it seemed as though these last few hours would last forever.
But when she woke from her daydreaming and looked at the customers on her last table, she almost died of fright. She immediately recognized them as Coldplay - and closest to her, her idol, Chris Martin.
GUACAMOLE
She brought their organic and largely salad-based lunch to them. “Chris was having the nachos,” she later noted with a smile, “He would, he’s edgy.” After a while, she returned to offer them Fair-Trade coffee. They chatted and joked with her, as if she was one of the crew or something. She really felt like she was helping them have a good time.
But when they stood to leave, Mandy noticed with alarm that Chris had some quacamole on his chin. “I don’t know what happened… I didn’t know what to say, so I just reached up and wiped it off his face, with a paper napkin.” She described the ‘beatific’ look he gave her - “His eyes seemed to burn through me, but in a nice way. They seemed to go on forever.”
IMPRINT
Mandy stood rooted to the floor as they left. After a moment, she realised that she was still clutching the napkin with which she had wiped Chris Martin’s face. And she opened it, to see that a miracle had occurred. On the napkin was the EXACT IMAGE of his face, TRANSFERRED like a PHOTOGRAPH upon the paper. So PERFECT was the image that NO-ONE could EVER POSSIBLY consider that it was not a miracle.
Let’s leave the last word to Mandy - “It was a sign that Chris had seen me - the real me - and that he could see through me. He saw my soul. He can see through our petty human lives, straight through to the humanity within.”
“Plus, I guess it made it okay that they didn’t leave a tip.”
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April 12 2008 10:44 pm | news