one-upping myself

I think I outdid myself this week.

Every Tuesday we have an activity called MLV where we march down the pier and then jump off in full uniform. After frolicking in the water for a few minutes we climb up onto the temporary ez-docks and proceed to engage in dock wars. Dock wars is pretty self explanatory. If you're standing on the dock, someone is going to try to push you off. So you should push them off first. Simple as that.

But here's the catch. As is predicted, most people don't want to go in the water. So it becomes a bit of a fight. Some fight more than others. For reasons unknown to me, I decided to throw off people who fought the most. And throw them I did. Typically the senior staff (18+) join together and dominate over the junior staff, bowling them off the docks and generally kicking ass and taking names.

Being the short person that I am, I tend to think that I am taller and so therefor decide it would be a good idea to pick fights with people who tend to be bigger than me. I tend to be pretty successful in my battles by employing a strategy of dropping the person to the deck and then shoving them in. It's worked quite well in the past.

There is a downside though, and that is that I tend to get pretty roughed up. I think I need to lay off next week because this week I am covered in bruises, I can barely life my arms up, and I have a huge gash on my knee. Not to mention my broken toe was smashed again yesterday and someone heeled me in my right foot leaving a giant bruise in the middle of my foot.

Yeah, probably time to back off.