28 February 2025: Today I asked an English 102 student how his paper, a profile of someone whose life has been shaped by sports, was coming along.
"Good! I kind of like it because I forgot the dude had cancer!"
I promise he didn't mean it in a bad way--he was just glad to have unlocked a rich area to talk about. But his classmates and I laughed a bit. "Does he also have Dad Issues?" I asked.
Later, I was joking to another group of students about my tiny hands and how they are the reason I never had a football career. (Literally, my hands are too small to hold one...)
This kid looks up and says, "You should try pickleball. Lots of old people like it." When his classmates gasped, he said, "No, I mean like my parents. They're like...40."
I about died laughing.
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