Friday I broke up my first hallway fistfight. Ms. R the science teacher was ineffectually asking two seventh graders to cease pummeling each other, which they were doing vigorously with heads down. I was walking back from the Boys' Room to our classroom and decided to establish myself as a no-nonsense hall monitor on top of my teacher intern duties. I stepped between the boys, took a few weak blows on the belly and back, and said in my most authoritative voice "I know you are only playing but this behavior is unacceptable!" The chunky young man who'd just punched me in the stomach looked up in terror. Because their heads were down the boys hadn't noticed an adult between them. Fortunately I do many daily crunches as part of my workout routine, and over my firm muscular stomach is also a comfy padding of fat--the result of four or five (or six) alcoholic beverages consumed each evening, also part of my workout routine. A young fist in the stomach and/or love handles hurts not a bit. The kids stopped slinging awkward blows and scurried into line for their next class.Some students at Booker T. are much larger than I. Were I to come across two behemoths duking it out, would I be so eager to step between them? The time will come when I'll find out.
Friday after school was happy hour at Dougherty's Pub. A nice place actually--I'd never been. The 20-something hipster teachers downed beers and tequila shots. I kept pace until Cha arrived, and we hung out for an hour and hit the road. I'll have many opportunities to drink with this crowd in the coming year. They're heavily into karaoke and duckpin bowling.
5 comments:
Why didn't you ever use that tone of voice with Assburger?
My girlfriend thinks I'm an alcoholic because I sometimes drink 5 or 6 beers by myself. What does she know!?
I have the same workout routine as you, except I skip the crunches part.
I have a fine routine of "beer curls" as well
:) jv
Man, if drinking several beers alone makes one an alcoholic, then I qualify. Does drinking socially before or after drinking alone make one less of an alchie?
I suggest leaving a beer on the coffee table just beyond reach while crunching on the crunch ball. As soon as you get to 200 you can have the beer, which you've been seeing at the peak of each movement. Great motivation. Of course with beer curls you must make sure to switch arms after each brew in order to distribute the gain equally to all muscle groups.
Unfortunately there's only one liver to exercise.
When the time comes I fully expect you to put yourself between two lady fighters when shirts get torn and buttons pop. Or is that my workout method, can't recall?
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