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In reply to the discussion: GOOD CATCH MR. PRESIDENT! Obama Catches Fainting Woman During White House Speech! (Video) [View all]IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Since I played baseball with my brothers growing up and threw overhand, I wouldn't have missed. Not in a million years. Of course I wouldn't be where I am now, either. I hear they don't offer inmates internet?
At least I did get to quit a job almost that way one time. Manager of a huge retirement center was a grifter who skimmed $ by billing for services she never actually provided. Called me on the carpet to cover her own rear, but she did it at the front desk to impress everybody. I took off both my shoes - fortunately the lobby was fairly crowded and I had an audience - and slapped them (the shoes, not the audience!) over my head while giving her my direst look. I don't know if any of them ever figured out what that meant, but they knew it couldn't be good.
Oh, I scared the hell out of a rotten hateful bus driver where I retired here in the MidWest boonies by telling him I was going to make a voodoo doll and stick pins in it. The rare times he encounters me in a store now, he turns around and dashes back to his bus. If I can't pin a real curse on him, the next best thing is to use superstition. I don't care so long as it works.