Andrew is tall. Quite tall. He's in a t-ball league for 5-6 year olds...just where he should be, seeing he is not even 6 1/2 yet. Half his team are kindergartners like him and the other half are pre-school/Pre-K kids. And he is by far the biggest kid on the team. By. Far.
At Thursday's game, Jeff was the 3rd base coach (there is a coach at every base in t-ball). When Andrew came up to bat, a father from the other team starts yelling, "Hey! Check that kids' birth certificate!" He was being funny in the way that loud Italians are funny, not mean spirited at all.
He quickly figures out that Jeff is Andrew's father, and after the inning is over, he walks over to Jeff and says, "Seriously, how big is your kid? He's really really tall?" Jeff says, "Yup, he is. He has been in the 99th percentile since the day he was born." The man points to his kid across the field and says, "Yup, and my kid has been in the 10th percentile since the day he was born. Hey! I own a karate school in town...why don't you stop by with Andrew and we'll see what he can do."
Andrew...already being recruited...
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I think you should let him do karate. It's important for the biggest kid in the class to be able to defend himself...
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