250: The Annoying Gap Between Theory...and Practice
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There's a gap between theory and practice and it's an annoying gap Michael was learning how to box his punches had some power. He was sparring in these little matches He was feeling pretty tough doing really tough actually and then one night He's walking home on a deserted street and somebody picks a fight with him Which in a way is exactly what he wanted when you're going to fight you kind of dream with that happening because your moment will come and I certainly thought that I was you know badass and this guy Wanted to mess with me. He was trying to mug me. He was trying to beat me up I don't know what he was trying to do. And what's he saying to you? Oh he's He's asking me if I have any money. He's mad at me because I'm not talking to him. He's asking me if I'm scared and He kept grabbing me and I was starting to get kind of freaked out because it was there wasn't anybody else around and the street was really dark and You see a big guy? Yeah, he was bigger than I was and I Turned around and I really kind of intended to hit him. It was just I you know I wanted to hit him, but I just wasn't prepared so I slapped him And it wasn't one of those kind of I Challenge you to a dual slaps. It was more like a it was it was Big and it was it was just a big early slap He looked really surprised his eyes were really wide open like he he I don't think that either one of us could believe that I'd actually slapped him and I slapped him again There's everything that is training told him to do in a real fight and then there was what really happened There was a gap between theory and practice Heather was eight years old on a school trip on the bus and she had to pee bad way and The bus gets stuck in traffic Here's how she remembers it now that she's an adult. She says that her eight-year-old brain came up with a theory I devised a plan because my little bladder was about to give out and I decided that I was in the middle of the bus. I had a seat to myself I thought I can pee Really quietly just kind of inch over my seats and go to the bathroom and no one will ever know Inch over my seat you mean like pee on the floor like pee on the floor like just kind of very quietly pee on the floor No one will know that was in theory You may be able to guess how this worked out in practice So I inched forward in my seats and I pee so that's fine. Right. It's working the kids the obnoxious boys They're yelling at each other the girls are talking gossiping whatever. It's actually working I even felt a little clever, you know But then the bus lurches forward I hadn't realized that the pee wouldn't stay put that when the bus lurched forward the pee would roll backwards and all of a sudden from the back of the bus I hear It's pee All hell breaks loose on the bus Everybody started leaping around the bus all known bus rules were off You didn't have to sit still anymore You didn't have to talk quietly to your neighbor You could scream you could leap over the seats and the only kid that didn't move was me Which I realize now is what incriminated me The whole thing pretty much cemented her position at the bottom of the social hierarchy in elementary school for a few years kids called her a peer Peasilla
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