Last week I was invited to join a karate gym by a rather strange man I met at English club.
I seem to have met rather a lot of slightly strange men during my short time here. Men who like to call themselves by their internet nicknames like, Passion, Stylish and DOS Fax (DOS like the operating system, Fax like machine). Men who enjoy karaoke and propose on the 5th date. I’ve even met men who think it’s normal to call their girlfriend 6 times a day and wear matching underwear.
However, this man was especially strange.
I knew he was special when I first introduced him to my co-teacher and he showed her a photo of himself topless before (unsuccessfully) asking her out on a date. He then proceeded to tell me about how, as a child, he used to enjoy not eating, sometimes going two or three days without food - Not something I can easily relate to.
Intrigued by his fascinating weirdness I agreed to start training at his gym.
This week after training he asked me to video him on this phone. Things started off (relatively) normally. He did a few press ups on his thumbs, threw some round house kicks into the heavy bag and punched the wall a couple a times. Then things rapidly degenerated into weird.
I was ushered into the changing room, (still recording on his phone) where he removed his top and proceeded to tense every single muscle in his body before striking a number of body building poses.
After a full muscle quivering minute, finally he gave me sign to stop recording.
Afterwards I asked him what he was going to do with this priceless footage. Apparently he has a date this week and he wants to show the poor woman this video. He’s single... for now.
I seem to have met rather a lot of slightly strange men during my short time here. Men who like to call themselves by their internet nicknames like, Passion, Stylish and DOS Fax (DOS like the operating system, Fax like machine). Men who enjoy karaoke and propose on the 5th date. I’ve even met men who think it’s normal to call their girlfriend 6 times a day and wear matching underwear.
However, this man was especially strange.
I knew he was special when I first introduced him to my co-teacher and he showed her a photo of himself topless before (unsuccessfully) asking her out on a date. He then proceeded to tell me about how, as a child, he used to enjoy not eating, sometimes going two or three days without food - Not something I can easily relate to.
Intrigued by his fascinating weirdness I agreed to start training at his gym.
This week after training he asked me to video him on this phone. Things started off (relatively) normally. He did a few press ups on his thumbs, threw some round house kicks into the heavy bag and punched the wall a couple a times. Then things rapidly degenerated into weird.
I was ushered into the changing room, (still recording on his phone) where he removed his top and proceeded to tense every single muscle in his body before striking a number of body building poses.
After a full muscle quivering minute, finally he gave me sign to stop recording.
Afterwards I asked him what he was going to do with this priceless footage. Apparently he has a date this week and he wants to show the poor woman this video. He’s single... for now.
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