Musco

Dear Mr. Musco,

Is this how you hit a birdie?

I thought I warned you guys to avoid asking me for advice. Well, whatever. So you want to learn how to play badminton and don't know where to start. I don’t know if this is going to be helpful or not, but just so you know my grade in P.E. is pretty bad. Since I’m naturally weak, I usually avoid going to P.E. when I can. And it goes against my nature to move around too much. You can say that I'm like a fish out of the water. I prefer to lay around and take naps then going out of my way to get some exercise, but today something changed my mind about P.E.  

 I was feeling a little tired today so I decided to take a little nap between periods. I had to adjust my body and hand to achieve the perfect napping condition. I achieved it once again today. I can't nap if all the requirements of the nap aren't fulfilled like the wind has to be perfect, optimal noiseless condition and perfect arm resting position. First, I tried leaning on the window. I miscalculated the distance and hit my head on the window. Today the position I chose was falling asleep in the holding up my chin position. This position is hard to keep up while trying to sleep. If I try to keep it up, my wrist gets injured. This happens often, but all I want to do is relax…. So I decided to start going to P.E. class to build up my physical strength so my hands won’t fall asleep.  I want to slack off worry free knowing that I can’t hurt myself.

Today in class our teacher told us we were going to play badminton. I paired up with my best friend Andy. We played together with my other friends who were also in my gym class. My other friends were athletes so they thought they had an edge on us, but neither did they know Andy gets very competitive when it comes to sports. Andy was able to not only return the birdie to their side but managed to fend them off just by himself. I wanted to give that a try so Andy moved back. Now it was my turn to return the birdie. I was ready to receive the birdie then the racket accidently slipped out of my hand and almost hit my other two friends. They scolded me for almost hitting them. So they just told me to sit out the rest of the game. So I just sat there on the sidelines. I wondered how great it would be if Andy work ethic would be incorporated into my grade as well since we are partners after all. I think the world should adopt this method then everyone would be happy.

When P.E. was over, they found me sound asleep on the gym floor. They felt bad for me so they didn't wake me up until later. So the lesson learned is to do your best. No, don't do your best. Just do whatever you want just like I did.

P.S. I shorten your username since it's too hard to remember. I think it actually sounds a lot cooler this way.

-Listless Tony