Apparently, Everyone Does Everything Incorrectly
My husband is a know-it-all. He can correct anyone or anything, and he doesn’t find that annoying, insecure, or at all offensive.
We were in my child’s karate class the other day. The teacher is like 35 and has studied karate for at least 15 years, um like probably 8 or 9 years LONGER than my husband studied wrestling…Notice I said wrestling, and NOT karate.
She said there are something like 15 “judo sweeps” they’ll learn, and she would teach them one of them during this particular class. I know nothing about martial arts or anything vaguely even related to sports or exercise, BUT I gather that a “judo sweep” is a judo move where you make another person fall down.
She explained and demonstrated the judo sweep, and my husband whispers to me, “Ha! That’s not the way to do that move.”
I was like, “Uhhh first of all you never studied karate. Wrestling is not karate. Secondly, she said there are 15 judo sweeps. This is probably a different one than the one you’re thinking of.”
He responds, “Nope. I know all of them. This is the same one. I guess she’s doing it correctly, but I know a trick that she’s not teaching them.”
I said, “Dear, I’m sure she knows the ‘trick’ you know. She just doesn’t want to confuse the children.” What I really meant by this was, “Shut up, please.” But I didn’t want to hurt his feelings because I love him, despite things like this.
October 8th, 2008 at 7:45 am
This one reminds me of my dad…the men in our lives…haha
October 8th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Noemi, that’s funny! This doesn’t remind me of my dad, but it does describe both of my grandfather’s to a T.
Well, oddly enough it also describes my mother-in-law to a T, but that’s a different post altogether.