What was your "15 minutes of fame"?
It happened long time ago.
A friend of mine persuaded me to go with her and her family to a ‘’Renaissance Fair’’ Renaissance fair - Wikipedia where you can experience life as it was in the 14th–17th century through various presentations and activities.
One of the presentations was fencing. Yes, the old fashioned kind with which brave knights settled their disagreements. People gathered around the roped off perimeters of the ring, and the skilled presenter would challenge the male visitors to a ‘’game of fencing’’. As soon as the potential competitor walked into the ring, the presenter would give him a sword and would verbally ridicule him as the helpless competitor was being forced off the ring by the presenter’s skillful moves in a 2 minute losing game.
This was a sad situation for the unsuspecting yet brave visitors.
Against my friend’s advise I decided to enter the ring. The presenter seeing that a woman was entering the ring, turned up his ridiculing shtick to the max. He had the audience laughing in no time.
Wearing sandals and a ruffled blouse I looked more like a hippie than a formidable fencing opponent.
The game started and with my skills I forced the presenter off the ring in less than 30 seconds. The applause, thumbs up, and bows of respect from the audience for me were worth more than the trophy I won.
You see, what the presenter didn’t know was that I just completed 6 months of lessons with an Olympic Gold medalist in fencing.
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