In March a couple of years ago I had
now been jogging for two months straight,
trying to lose a beer gut I had acquired since
turning 40. I've always been a big guy, 6'4"
and around 280 lbs in recent years. I've got
the horseshoe hair thing going and often wear
a ball cap while jogging along my mile and
a half course.
Well, when March turned over onto April
1, my girlfriend challenged me to make an
April Fool of myself. Instead of my regular
jogging routine she wanted me to go for
a skip. In fact, she wanted me to go skipping
in the style of a little schoolgirl along
my regular jogging path (next to a high
traffic roadway). My girlfriend was even
willing to wager $100 that I would not do
this.
I figured $100 was $100 so, off I went,
my big beer-gutted self skipping along my
jogging path, watching the curious expressions
on the motorists faces as they passed me
by. My beer gut was flopping so much I couldn't
keep my shirt down so I'm sure this added
to the spectacle.
As I made the last turn on my skipping
extravaganza I notice my girlfriend had
grabbed her video cam and positioned herself
on the opposite corner to capture this debacle
on tape. We haven't played the tape since
then and I'm still wondering when it will
rear its ugly head again.
I did let her off the hook for the $100
though and she found another way to please
me (wink, wink), so I figure the whole episode,
silly and foolish as it was, was well worth
it.
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