Lights & Camera but No Glory

I was flattered when they asked me. Rhonda Burns, Pastor John's assistant, stopped by my office yesterday and asked if I'd be willing to be in a commercial. I was flattered. She told me to wear basketball style clothing and that the commercial was being shot in a gym. Now I knew why I had been chosen. They probably needed someone with kind of an athletic look. I was really feeling good about myself. Until on the way to the shoot John began to tell me about the script. My job was to stand at the free throw, fail at dribbling, and than miss...badly. Very badly. My job was to look like a bumbling fool. I'd been type casted. I feel so cheap and used.