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The best teacher at my high school could never eat enough to maintain his body weight - all day long he sipped little juice boxes of protein goop that he took w
by monkeycantype 5y ago
The best teacher at my high school could never eat enough to maintain his body weight - all day long he sipped little juice boxes of protein goop that he took with a grimace from a bear sized stack of pallets against the back wall of his office .
He was nearish to seven foot, and in his opinion, didn't have a big enough stomach for the task.
As a young man he'd been a skinny pole. During a university science lab he had discovered he has an extraordinary ability to taste tiny concentrations of chemicals, somehow this information got passed on to an ice cream factory, and he got a summer holiday job tasting the ice cream for traces of the 'wrong' flavour e.g. could he still taste coffee after the line had been switched form ice coffee to strawberry. The story went that over three months of eating ice cream all day everyday, he blossomed into a ripped Adonis, and subsequently with his new athletic physique become a windsurfing champion. (yes there is such a thing as a windsurfing champion) But eating ice cream is not the universal delight you and I assume it is. It was a subjective ordeal, a long torturous slog, long days of spoon upon spoon. At the end of the summer, the now champion, couldn't face another bucket and began the lifelong search for something he could endure eating in quantities to satisfy his metabolism
- tragomaskhalos 5y agoHas Wes Anderson optioned the film rights yet ?!
- samstave 5y ago
- contravariant 5y agoWow, what a thrill it must be to be a high school teacher and be able to say to your students "I turned down a job in the ice-cream factory for this shit".
- monkeycantype 5y agoNah - apart from the eating he was a happy one. I went to a high school on the island where Thor from the movies grew up. The good teachers were there because they wanted to surf, smoke a bit of dope and not work too much. The teachers that didn't surf we're miserable creatures, bitter and humiliated they'd had to crawl to the ends of the earth to meet the standard for employability.
- skrebbel 5y agoHe went to high school is Asgard‽ Cool!
- monkeycantype 5y agoYep, complete with a summer holiday job picking up tourist rubbish at the (duckduckgoable phrase) penguin parade. But I have now strayed to far from the original topic
- bigdict 5y agoI wish I were that high right now.
- mkl 5y ago> yes there is such a thing as a windsurfing champion I don't think it's that obscure - it's an Olympic event.