Do It! Do It! Redux

I should probably point out that I am more sympathetic to my son Alex's behavior on the bus than my wife is, because I succumbed to peer pressure in a similar (but even dumber) situation: I was in sixth grade and had just gotten braces installed to correct an overbite, and I was riding the bus home, playing one of those old school handheld video games with the blipping red dashes, and I took the nine volt battery out of the game, held it up, and said, "I wonder what would happen if I touched this to my braces" and before I knew it kids were chanting for me to "do it! do it!" and so I stood up, faced the back of the bus, and stuck the battery terminals to the metal on my top and bottom teeth, completing the circuit, shocking myself profoundly, and knocking myself back into my bus seat, where -- once I came to -- I revelled in my glory . . . I did it!

5 comments:

zman said...

The return of awkward Dave.

Dave said...

this was "an awesome moment of dave." i got everyone on the bus to look at me! i was popular (for one brief moment).

zman said...

It's easy to mix up your highs and lows.

Dave said...

the tonka truck incident = both.

as do most of my great/ awkward moments.

Clarence said...

I love that an "incident" occurred while I slept in an adjacent room.

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