Wrestling does not belong at work (it turns out)

[MystyGlyttyr]

We were bored to death and fooling around at work today, and the subject of my wrestling background came up (as sometimes it does). Well, the folks wanted some demonstrations, but I wasn't about to start doing backflips and cartwheels on our floor (it's horribly uneven and made of metal bars in some places). Nor could I really slam anyone without hurting them. So I decided to just show a few basic tricks.

The one I was showing was "getting your head slammed into a table". Where someone else flings you at a table and, preferably, you make the loud THUMP sound with your hands instead of your head. Having long hair, I can make it look pretty realistic as I've learned how to toss it so it's hard to see that my forehead stops an inch or so above impact.

Of course, the funniest things happen when someone walks in at the wrong part of a conversation...so our elderly, polite hiring manager/personnel director walks off the elevator just in time to see me apparently getting my head slammed into my desk by the 6'2" sports editor while the rest of the newsroom is watching, and seeing me reeling backwards and onto the floor as though I'd just been hit with a frying pan.

It took us ten minutes to convince her that the sports editor wasn't attacking me and I was actually fine, and about another ten to get her to stop hyperventilating. Oops.

[Crazeyal]

HHEHEHEHE

Naughty thing...

Wrestling is for LUNCHTIME!!

[Iris Kojiro]

I'm an on-again off-again fan of professional wrestling.

I haven't watched the stuff consistently since the Monday Night Wars, but I certainly appreciate the art. If anything, I would have been quite impressed.

[nomorecarts]

hahaha, old people ruin all the fun

[PizzaDrone]

Haha, sounds great. I had a friend in secondary school who used to do that now and again to shake people up. Always great fun!

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

We were bored to death and fooling around at work today, and the subject of my wrestling background came up (as sometimes it does). Well, the folks wanted some demonstrations, but I wasn't about to start doing backflips and cartwheels on our floor (it's horribly uneven and made of metal bars in some places). Nor could I really slam anyone without hurting them. So I decided to just show a few basic tricks.

The one I was showing was "getting your head slammed into a table". Where someone else flings you at a table and, preferably, you make the loud THUMP sound with your hands instead of your head. Having long hair, I can make it look pretty realistic as I've learned how to toss it so it's hard to see that my forehead stops an inch or so above impact.

So wrestling IS fake...

[bainsidhe]

Ah hell, this is my fave post of the night. I'm still giggling

[Jay 2K Winger]

I've done the same thing sometimes to trick little kids at work. When I'm at the front door, standing next to the alarm pedestal, I'll place my hand on the top of it, draw back my head, and "headbutt" the pedestal, which rocks nicely (it's a bit wobbly), and I then pull a glazed expression and stagger unsteadily. It always gets a grin out of the kids, and even some of my former managers would burst out laughing when I did it.

I did once inadvertently give my friend Sean an STO on the hardwood floor in my house. I was explaining the basic concept to him, placing my arm and leg for it, pushing forward, and expecting him to resist it. Instead, he doesn't, my socked feet slip, and WHAM!

J2K: "Basically, it's like a leg trip. You go like this, and--"
WHAM:
J2K: "Holy shit! You okay, dude?"
Sean: *laughing*

Yeah, Sean's got a high pain tolerance. He'll make a good pro wrestler when he gets around to training at Chikara WrestleFactory.

[nomorecarts]

I work with a guy who wants to be a pro wrestler


only problem is he's a pussy, has a horrible diet, isn't that big, is kind of lazy(I've seen much worse, but also much better), and is so lacking in the street smarts category that he'd never learn the moves, and he'd hit the table with his face and if a superstar ever made fun of him he'd probably run away to cry. he's also way too suseptible to shit talking, I've gotten him VERY close to crying a couple times when he does something extra douchebaggish

[PepperElf]

heh. my old co-workers wouldn't have ever been satisfied with doing show-wrestling moves.

i've lost track of how many times i've had to say, "Hey... keep it away from the computers!"

not kidding... full contact wrestling. one guy refused to tap out and ended up passing out for a few seconds instead.