So I’m going to physical therapy for my knee and there are about 20 other people in there at the same time with similar injuries getting treatment and using the machines. People will share their war stories about how they got injured and where they are in the process of recovery; basic stuff.
But this one dude cracks me up. He reminds me of the main character of the Thundercats cartoon, Lion-O. Except a little over-weight. He’s got the bright red hair and the weird curly fro thing going on. He’s also about 6′3 and so un-athletic it’s funny (which is hilarious because he always talks about how many sports he plays). So I always see him hitting on all the girls there, which is funny. He clearly watched the MTV show, The Pickup Artist, because he constantly uses the same lines and tries to appear “non-threatening” and “adds value”. Though I have to admit it is pretty hard to appear non-threatening when you approach a girl with huge cordless headphones on your head. I just look at the situation and shake my head and think, “what a disaster”.
So many people may be wondering what takes place in these ever so hot physical therapy conversations? Well, one time he noticed this really hot girl had an Australian accent, so of course “Lion-O made his move (with his giant Luke Skywalker cordless headphones of course). He said something to the extent of, “oh I noticed your accent. What part of Australia are you from? My girlfriend is from Australia”. I guess this is his way of appearing “non-threatening” that he learned from The Pickup Artist. I totally wanted to interupt and say, “yea, dude don’t kid yourself, you don’t have an Australian girlfriend.” But I didn’t. I let the disaster carry on. Of course it ended up with the physical therapist telling him to get back to his machine and his workout (and in my mind I’m sure she was saying, “we all know you don’t have an Australian girlfriend!”).
But this is only one of the many moves that Mr. Lion-O has made during my time there, and I anxiously anticipate more. In fact I plan on interrupting one of the conversations and just talking about some random non-existent French girlfriend I have just so he knows how stupid he sounds. The end.
