3-13-2012- the day of the great arm wrestling tournament
it was just the other day in the doctors office the doctor had
just came into the examining room and asked me if i wanted to arm
wrestle. he is new to me but not to the world as he does look like
he had been around a little. definitely had the edges wore off and was
greatly undersized compared to me who was the only other person in the
room. to my further amazement he tells me he is going to win. im
beginning to think do i really want a doctor who is just plan down right
stupid to try me like that , but figured it all to be a hoax and
laughed at his remarks in a positive you really don't want to go there
doc look.
i proceeded to tell him that i had arm wrestled professionally at
seaworld at geauga lake in aurora , ohio in about 1977. he started
asking me about how to do it and what the technique was all about. i
mentioned to him , it was all about the jump after you start. you need
to anticipate the start to get the jump on the other guy hopefully
sending him into a downward spiral. and that it is possible to comeback
and win with sheer strength but you need to try and avoid getting down
at all.
the first guy i was up against was huge , since i was over 220 lbs,
i was considered heavyweight. xxl . is the term but it also put me in
there with the really huge guys weighing 350 400 pounds. a chunka chunk.
twice the arms of myself and i am a fairly large person and at the time
was working in a feed mill slinging sacks of grain for a living. would
be nothing to tote around 20 tons of feed per day . stack it and load on
customer trucks . also in the bars around my hometown i had never been
beaten at arm wrestling , winning some drinking money at the bars with
my arm. i felt as if i stood a chance. this first guy wiped up the floor
with me. it was over so fast i just stood there and shook my head.
the second guy got up and since it was double elimination i had
to lose twice. i wasn't about to and this time i had a better idea what
to do. and since this wasn't his first competition he knew better to as
he lost once before also. he was a formidable opponent . as after we
started it see sawed back and forth , as both of us had determination to
win. he had just about pinned me and i got my second wind and started
bringing it back to the crowds approval . this spurred me on. as well
as the news photographer was getting his tv camera out and was taking
closeups of the action getting in my face as i strained to take him over
the top. there was no down hill slide either as he was giving up ever
so reluctantly . but the crowd cheered me on and somewhere i dug up
enough energy to put him away. and the crowd cheered at his demise. life
was good.
well the producer of the event said it was going to be a couple
of hours till i wrestled again having won. so if i wanted to i could
check out things on the grounds. well i never saw a killer whale , so i
went and watched shamu as he did his stunts and just wondered all over
sea world being amazed at every corner by aquariums , and happenings. i
was in need of some relaxation as everything including going back
wrestling were starting to overwhelm me. i decided to lean up against a
fence much like in the first picture. it was in the shade and i never
quite looked at what was on the other side of the fence. i didn't till
it sent its appendage out seeking me and wrapped itself around my foot
and tugged. i looked down and there was this grey thing wrapped around
my foot . i about lost it high stepping out of there and looking back to
see what it was as it disappeared under the fence. thinking it was
some kind of snake or something.
when i looked back over the fence , i could see clearly who
the aggressor was . it was a baby elephant. it was as cute as it could
be . would have loved to take it home but im sure it wouldn't fit in vw
seat , and my girlfriend was already jealous of the attention i was
spending on this gentle giant. i would scratch his head and he showered
his attention back to me. soon some guy came around the corner and says
in rough tone. remember he is a wild animal. and disappears as quickly
as he appeared. after awhile the elephant wandered off as my mind did
too, wondering what his purpose was there.
well it didn't take to much wondering as i went on to the next
show and was sitting there and heard an announcement for bertha the
skiing elephant. and sure enough but who would appear on a set of water
pontoons to look like skis but bertha the baby elephant as she whizzed
by me at my vantage point along side the lake. she looked scared and
apprehensive about whole water skiing thing as she did circles and such.
it only lasted about 10 minutes but was glad to see her make it back to
shore . i could only imagine how unbelievably horrible it would be for a
baby elephant to slip off the skis in front of a crowd. imagine it
would scare her being in the water. but then again i hear elephants can
swim , and aren't afraid of water unless a crocodile is there.
this all served to take my mind off the next match as again i was
up against the first guy . the same one who had beat me so pitifully
the first time. what a draw. oh well eventually if i was going to win
would have to beat him or the guy that beats him also, so might as well
get with it.
slap a diaper on this guy and he would remind you of one of those
sumo wrestlers from japan. this time around he was huffing and puffing ,
in an apparent attempt to psyche me out . it worked as i stood there
wondering if he was going to blow up when the match started. again it
was over before i knew it. well so ended my professional career as a arm
wrestler.
and this doctor is going to beat me he says. i kinda think he is
prescribing himself way to much testosterone, and it is beginning to
get him in trouble. don't know as to who is treating who here sometimes.
but would hope that it was just an attempt at humor to offset the
seriousness of the situation. then again, maybe the old fart is feeling
his oats.
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