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This is the one with a slip up.

Posted August 4th, 2010 by Mike Lawson

Okay.  I’ve worked around children for some time now and I’ve gotten pretty good at holding in the “fucks” and “shits” that every adult has bubble up their throat from time-to-time.

I get hit on the head with a basketball and want to yell “Who the fuck threw that?”  but instead I’ve learned that to keep my job I must say, “Who the heck threw that?”

So yesterday I was playing a large game of NAME THAT TUNE with about 150 kids in the gym (the Sedona Club was in town and visiting our Club).  The game consists of different musical challenges and trivia questions.  Things like “who sings this song” or “finish these lyrics.”  It was fun.

I was super-prepared for the game.  I even had notes with a script. 

I should have known it was a bad idea to deviate from my notes.  I had four kids standing in front of the group and my notes said, “It’s now time for a dance-off.”  And I was going to play the song You’re A Jerk by the New Boyz.  And the kids would have to do the jerk.  The best dancer would earn points for his or her team.

Easy.  Not even an idiot could fuck this up.

So I was feeling good and decided to improvise.  I was straight freesytling.  And I said on a microphone in front of a gymnasium full of kids, “All right, now it’s time for a jerk off.”

A jerk off.

The second the words left my mouth I realized my mistake.  The adult staff in the room were laughing to the point of tears.  One staff fell to the floor in laughter.  I got red in the face.

A jerk off.  Seriously, Mike?

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