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Hot head had a heart attack.  I called it, but wouldn’t immediately come to the conclusion that I possess psychic abilities.  It really wasn’t too difficult to predict considering his track record.  While working together during cafeteria duty I have seen him turn shades of red that I haven’t often seen a person able to acquire.  His veins expand and pop out of his neck.  I can see the blood boil and rise.  One of these days he was bound to explode.  He is a screamer and gets so close to the students that one day I asked him if he’s ever been in a physical confrontation.  Which of course he bragged about as if getting into fights with teenagers is something that a middle-aged man should be proud of.

Surprisingly, many young girls approach him during our half hour period together.  They ask for advice and complain about boys who spread rumors that they have herpes. One day I saw five girls talking to him and asked him about it.  He said that they looked at him as a father figure.  A father figure?  I thought he was far from it.  If I was a fifteen year old girl I wouldn’t approach him because I would be afraid of him.  Hell, I’m twenty-eight and I’m terrified of him.  He countered with that he was an onion and that you had to peel the layers to get to the core.  The onion analogy didn’t sit well with me because I kept dwelling on the horrid smell imagining exactly how many layers one had to peel to get to the center.  For that matter, why would someone want to spend so much time or waste it to reach the core?

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  2. Actually, I want to know more about this guy. Why were you afraid, and they weren’t. Was is a cultural or class thing? If you did peel those layer off, what do you think you would find at the core? Those girls must have seen something in him that they needed and felt a sense of comfort in. Did he recover from his heart attack? Was he the same ?…physically?… emotionally? or did it change him somehow? Now that you’re not 28 any more, do you view him differently?

    • He was just a very abrasive, confrontational type of person. I believe he was a football coach at one time. He did recover from his heart attack, but it didn’t affect his behavior or personality in a positive way. No, he wasn’t a professional or that great of a guy all together, but he was definitely a character.

  3. Hi, just wanted to say i liked this article.

  4. I liked this article , I think I even knew this guy.you meet all kinds in this world some you should give the time of day to,some you should just ignore.I also liked you other posts,my only criticism is you might reach more people if you dumd down youre vocabulary a bit. I know thats tough . but somtimes you have to make things simple.

  5. It’s possible that the screaming, intimidating, overbearing man reminds them of their fathers or that they wish they even had a shred of discipline in their lives and he had an OVERabundance.

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