4.12.06

Not completely UN-disastrous

I have this scab on my elbow from a patch of rugburn I received a few weeks ago in a wrestling match - alcohol may or may not have been involved - with Don Thibodeau.

A student asked me where I got it today. I said, "Wrestling" without thinking. Kids asked, "Oh, so you wrestle?" "Well, not really."

"Then how'd you get it?"

"Mr. Rollins... do you party?"

I didn't answer that one. I let the kids hypothesize.

"Can you imagine," one laughed, "HIM partying?"

"I don't know," another responded, "He puts on a proper front here at school but I bet if you get him-"

"Back to Spanish," I said, meekly.

"Mr. Rollins," said a girl who I think is 14, "I bet you're good at beer pong. You've got those long arms."

I examined my arms a moment, blasted things are what got me in this situation to begin with, and looked up at her.

"How do you know about Beer Pong?"

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