Saturday class and a T-shirt contest

The guy who said I have the perfect limbs for crushing someone’s life out (Be still my heart) was the only one unpartnered when I arrived for Saturday’s class. I was glad I’d already met him during the Triangle Choke class, as that made this much easier.

“Looks like it’s you and me,” I said on approach.

“Let’s do it,” he said with a nod.

This man is my new Timmy/Andre in general size, except Andre was careful with me. (Despite that whole bending my foot backward incident.) This New Andre, whom I’ll call Drake, heavily dragged his leg over mine multiple times (as expected, I’m feeling it today) and gave me a knee to the stomach. I said “Oof” many times and a couple of “Ow”s.

Still a nice guy, he was at least trying to not hurt me.

At one point he said, “You got Draked.”

Somehow, in the moment, I found it funny. Now, I just find it as lame as lame can be. I hope to avoid partnering with him in future classes.

After class, I had an opportunity to “relate” to Li’l Trejo.

T-shirt on Amazon, in case you’re interested.

“I saw a Korn sticker on your water bottle a while back,” I told him.

“Yeah.” He smiled.

“One time after class, I turned on the radio and a Korn song was playing. So I cranked it up and drove fast. Then I got stopped at a light.”

“Oh,” he grimaced.

“I was like, doesn’t this light know I just came from Jiu-Jitsu? I need to GO!”

He smiled in understanding. “I like metal like Korn and Disturbed…”

I nodded in recognition. Disturbed has a cool cover of The Sound of Silence. Don’t ask me to name any other songs. And I only knew I was listening to Korn because I used Shazam, a song recognition app.

Li’l Trejo continued with other band names foreign to me. “I just love music.”

“Me too,” I said.

“Not a lot of girls like Korn. It’s rad that you do.”

I smiled and said nothing more on the topic but wished him a great day. I mean, I did enjoy that song at the time because it was apropos for my kick-butt post-Jiu-Jitsu mood. Are there other songs of theirs I’d like? Maybe, but I didn’t want to burst his bubble by revealing my general ignorance of the band. Was that wrong, Blog Buddies?

On my way home, I stopped by the store and bought, among other things, Traditional and Bold Chex Mix. Sadly, no Cheddar. (That means something to readers who have been here awhile.) I was wearing a rash guard and my Jiu-Jitsu pants. My ponytail was by now an absolute mess. One guy did make eye contact with a mild questioning look. I put on a face of “I’m a martial artist; don’t mess with me” confidence.

The lady in the checkout line behind me was only buying a bottle of tequila. I wanted to say, “Rough day, huh?” but I refrained. When I got home and saw myself in the mirror, I realized she would have likely said, “Looks like you need this more.”

For all my tough girl bravado, I looked like a mental patient. The eyeliner I’d left on from the morning was smeared below and around my eyes. And to say my hair was a mess was a gross understatement. My only hope was that, with the rash guard, I looked like I’d been surfing, and that’s cool, right?

Sadly, I gawked and wiped my face clean before I thought to take a picture, but here’s a close approximation:

Thanks, ebdo23 from Pixabay.

Okay, fine. It was more like this, but not nearly as dramatic:

Thanks Marcela Oliveira from Pexels. Also, get out of the road, girl!

Endless Weekend sent me a picture of a great T-shirt. I’m tempted, but do I shell out nearly $30 (with tax and shipping)? Not sure. Maybe when I get to blue belt like this girl.

BJJ means Brazilian Jui-Jitsu. The shirt is from here.

Endless Weekend also wrote this gem to me: “When Betsy plays dodgeball, the ball dodges her.” (I know it’s really a Chuck Norris joke, but I’ll take it.)

Beth said I need a shirt that says “I won the battle.”

I responded: “Or, ‘You should see the other guy.’”

Then Flojo (not a blogger but a loyal reader who claims she’s my biggest fan) suggested a T-shirt contest. I’m not entirely sure how that would work, so I’ll just ask:

Which of these shirts do you like the best?

1. BJJ Girls Rule.
2. I won the battle.
3. You should see the other guy.
4. When I play dodgeball, the ball dodges me.
5. The above Korn T-shirt then wear it to class to make Li’l Trejo believe I’m fully committed.
6. I got Draked.
7. List your own creative idea(s) for us to further vote on!
8. Or just stick with the fun shirt I have:

List your faves in the comments!