The Lost Entry

Crap. I had a nice, long, very interesting exposition yesterday on why the Martial Arts school next to my lunchtime restaurant has the subtitle "Leadership Development Center," and it has vanished. I usually backup my entries in a text file, but it, too, is missing. Double crap. Perhaps it was all a just a very mundane dream.

Let us see if I can re-create the high points.

• the "United League of Self Defense Academies and Leadership Development Center" next to the Teriyaki Pit where I eat has an unwieldy and troubling name.
• I see a "lesson" taking place where the instructor was gesticulating wildly, in unhinged motivational speaker style, to his class of a father, his two daughters (4 and 6), and his son (9).
• I see the instructor haul off and punch the 9 year old in the gut. The father nods approvingly, the 4 year old looks at her brother in horror.
• I discover I am blocking the doorway to the restaurant in stunned disbelief, and enter the establishment, not seeing the rest of the scenario play out
• I muse that it might have been a fake punch, since the kid's face was a little more exaggeratedly "Whoofed" than might be real, and really, what successful business model allows the sucker-punching of nine year olds?
• Unless, of course, that was the "leadership development," and if I had been appropriately pummeled by ninjas at a young age, I might now be President. Or a Cabinet Minister. Or something.
• And I finished with a somewhat obtuse reference to "On The Waterfront," using the word "bum," since I know you guys love that word.

So there you have it. You didn't miss much.

Comments

[mike]

thanks. that made me laugh outloud.

[Carson]

Sounds like the 9yr old failed to bow to his sensei. Bow to your sensei!