ever been in a job club. can you relate?

you know, i was in this class once.
i am a shy person.
we had to pair up with someone, ask some arbitrary questions about
each other and then complete the exercise by going up to the front
of the room with your partner and introduce him or her
to the class.

all i remember about my partner is that he was about 55 or 60,
dressed normal like a teacher. with an old man’s hat. he had a
thing for Provo, Utah. that was his choice for an ideal,
“long-term goal” type-of-place-he’d-like-to-be.
this all made me a little sad.

anyway, i bravely led the assignment and introduced the fellow.
then he introduced me.
i remember just being in a bit of a self-conscious daze standing up there
and wasn’t really listening to what he was saying.
the class was quiet as we walked back to our desks.
not too unusual.
a bit later the girl behind me asked me, quite interested, if i really was
into porn films.

my partner, a bit of mumbler, had apparently introduced me to the
class as "this is christian, and he’s into porn films."

a bit of a mumbler myself, i had explained to him earlier during our
exorcise that i was into foreign films.