After the incident earlier that morning that I will affectionately refer to as Barfgate, I rushed off to speak at two local elementary schools. What…elementary schools? I know, I know. That’s what I said. To make matters worse, the first school was sixth graders then the second consisted of fourth, fifth and sixth graders. To this day, I have no clue how old these kids were, but taking an educated guess, some of them had to be in single digits. If I felt out of my league the day before, only God knew what kind of foolishness was about to happen. Oh yeah, I was told that I was only going to have to speak for 30 minutes, but it turns out that they had me scheduled for an hour. You’ve gotta be kidding me!
For the first time in my LIFE, I looked at these kids and said, “I’m old enough to be your father,” and I was RIGHT! Oh wow! Am I really that old? Yes, Mr. Hanging On To The Past, yes!
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