Rowdy Roddy Piper came to my high school world problems class. He was presented as a small business owner. He owned some car lubrication facilities. Pipers pit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am not sure if they knew he was a wrestler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He gave a blustery wrestling speech about world problems. In it he became really agitated and said that people should be shot for minor crimes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The whole classroom erupted in laughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under an American flag, he said “you only laugh because none of you have ever been shot. If one of you had ever been shot, you would think differently.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the laughter increased. People were rolling in the aisles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Except for the one kid sitting in the middle, in a leg cast, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(He had been shot.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Afterwards, the teacher chewed us all out for disrespect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a true story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometime after that, I was thrown out of that class permanently for \u201cinsubordination.\u201d Which is another funny story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the teacher said he was kicking me out for insubordination, I said \u201cthis is not the military you increasingly silly man.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And he ordered me to go to the administration office. And I told him he had to go too. And when we got there, all they did was put me in the other world problems class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I learned my lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Burma-Shave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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