Darla and Goliath

I went to my daughters gymnastic meet today and saw an epic battle between good and evil. Any man that has a daughter, sister, wife, girlfriend or even a mother would have stood up and cheered. The story started off simply enough with a young teenage boy who was excited to have been missing school, excited with all of the young ladies around but not to happy that the girls were more interested in their competition then his studly self.

He started lifting things around him for no obvious reason except to show his manliness. When the young ladies did not seem to care he started to flex his muscles and proclaiming loudly that he lifts weights and stars on the football team. Once again the intended girls just ignored this young man, they had more important things to worry about and it was not some boy.

This show of testosterone went on for the entire meet to no avail. The poor lad was getting no attention so he became louder and more excited. Towards the end of the meet when this 6 foot kid could not win the eye of any girl he started to yell bizarre things such as "I could have beaten you at your silly game" and then he would flex his arms again but the girls did not care.

I thought about taken the kid to the side and telling him to shut up or a real man would find his mommy and demand something was done. As I was beginning to stand up a young gymnast half his size walked passed him and he slapped at her hair. The girl turned around and said "that was not nice and you better not do it again" of course being a male he could not let a girl tell him what to do so he slapped her hair again.

I stood up and was hurrying toward the poor waif who was over sized and over powered when she walked up to him and jabbed the kid in the chest and said "STOP" which of course he did not. He looked around and felt he had to protect his man image and slapped her arm away. This was what I loved the most about my day, she looked startled, reared back and punched the boy in the stomach. He reeled with pain, dropped to his knees and started crying.

I learned a lesson from this a woman can beat a man with just ignoring him, with her words and if all else fails a woman (at least a gymnast) can beat the snot out of you.

The boy survived and the adults cheered.