It is our last day of school before a three day
weekend. The last day of the grading period. Grades will be posted next week.
It is the completion of the first six weeks of the semester and already my GPA
is wounded. I am all but certain to get twin C’s in Peabody’s and Cool Joe
Thomas class. I have never gotten a C in my life. Coupled with my athletic injury Mrs. Peabody
has made me all but stop caring about getting off on the no-pun intended
tight-proverbially foot while entering the annals of my high school career.
After school tonight we leave for Mattoon. I have
not run all week. Physically it is the longest I have gone without running
since I was in fifth grade.
Monday there is no school because of Columbus. 1992
is the so-called 500th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage. Two movies have already been released
detailing Columbus’s sojourn. Both flicks have exponentially flopped. One
features a gourdish-nose French speaking Gerard Depardieu portraying Christopher
Columbus. Both movies feature new world natives who are topless and displayed
as obscenely heathen and uneducated.
Coach Manna assays the class up and down. Aron
Rothman is still acting up and talking in the back row as he has done every
day of the school year.
Coach Mannaoni discusses Columbus day with class.
The football team is undefeated and
He looks back at Aron who is making Arm pit noises
and trying to say that the person in front of him just farted.
“Aron, why is it paradoxical to believe that
Columbus discovered this continent?”
Aron says that he did discovery it. Coach Mann
shakes his head. He looks my direction. Coach M always looks in my direction
and lets out a smile.
“David, please, enlighten us.”
I hate when Coach Mann does this. I hate when he
puts me on the spot.
The classroom is silent. Even Aron Rothman has
momentarily suspended torching us with his arm-pit induced sonatas.
‘It is fallacy because Columbus really didn’t discovery
anything. There was already thriving civilization and different City-structure.
A lot of what Columbus discovered he actually pillaged. His proclamation of a
new land actually decimated a civilization that by all accounts was
flourishing.”
Coach M smiles. He says good job. Patrick gives me
fighter pilot thumbs up.
Aron looks behind me and says if Columbus didn’t
discover America who did before stating Your momma.
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