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Gym Class, the Gay-Straight Alliance, and Ex-Con Classmates
from Underground Economy · #34
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4 minMore Nassau stories: taking gym/racquetball class as an adult, checking out the Gay-Straight Alliance, and meeting a classmate who'd done time, plus general observations about the desperate, dumb people at community college.
- 26:06Tim took gym class at age 28 at community college, dealing with team-picking anxiety like a teenager.
- 26:29Racquetball is something rich people do, but playing it at a community college in an indoor court is profoundly sad.
- 26:54The racquetball teacher gave up while Tim and other out-of-shape students were hitting the ball.
- 27:14Sailing was also offered and filled up, described as barely a gym class where students mostly just learn about currents.
- 28:00Getting out of his car at 28 and walking into community college was genuinely embarrassing.
- 28:23Attending community college felt like going to a halfway house after prison because everyone there was Billy Madison.
- 28:45Seeing classmates in the food court between classes, hearing about their lives—encountering someone almost 30 shouldn't be happening.
- 28:58Ex-con classmate explains he hit a cop, did six months, and now wants to get into business.
- 29:30Another student describes working at a tanning salon, eating OxyContin all day, vomiting in her car, and eventually crashing into a building.
- 29:47When asked what he did, Tim says he was a mortgage broker and is now a comedian—worse than everyone else's stories.