When did someone challenge you, not realizing your power level was over 9,000?

When we were having a couple of drinks on Friday after work, I was challenged to a little marksmanship challenge by a colleague.

Little did he know, but I've been shooting BBs competitively ever since I was 13.

That's not to say I'm the greatest, but I've made it to the national finals for my country multiple times, and came third and sixth. I have all the special clothes and gear and such that you need to make it to such a level. The next Saturday, we showed up at the range that I always go to. It's not a day I usually train, so luckily not many people recognize me. And I whooped his butt, left, right,

and center that day. Out of 600 points, he scored about 200 to 250, if I remember correctly. I got about

580, which is around the average of what I used to shoot. He had to buy me a fancy bottle of whiskey,

and now we shoot every two to three weeks together. Fun times. Kind of the reverse for me. I'm a physical education teacher

and I had a student that took a pretty bad tumble in class, hit her head on the wall, pretty clear

concussion symptoms. So we get her stable, call mum and dad to come and get her. Dad shows up and I start

going through the concussion symptoms and treatments with him, letting him know that a doctor's visit is probably in order. Anyway, I ramble incessantly about concussions for some time, and then he just

politely nods and thanks me. He takes his daughter and leaves, and I see my principal standing

behind me, and he can barely contain his laughter. Turns out the dad is an emergency room doctor,

and he just sat there while his daughter's gym teacher gave him medical advice.

My friend used to ride a unicycle as a kid.

He worked construction and they were working at a house that had an old unicycle.

The other workers tried riding it and immediately fell off.

My friend walked over to it and inspected the unicycle like it was the first time he'd

ever seen one of them and said it didn't look that difficult. They all laughed at him and he said

he thought he could ride it. Eventually one of them bet him a hundred bucks he couldn't and he jumped

on and immediately rode it down the street. Okay, my power level is by no means over 9,000 on this.

I'd probably rate it in the 1500s.

But I've played chess since I was a small child, and I was the best player in the middle

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