When I was in Medical School, I got the only taste of acting since grade school. The professor that taught pulmonology was an immigrant from Germany. Her English was excellent, but with a heavy German accent. Obviously, she used the word “breaths” often in teaching the physiology and pathophysiology of the lungs. She was quite animated in that she used her hands and arms to accentuate whether she was talking about inspiration or expiration.
When she said “breaths” it sounded like “breasts”, in her thick German accented English. Her hands would start at her side extended out and she would move them in a scooping motion upward as she said, “When one takes beeg (big) breasts…”
At the end of the course, we had to explain why there would be outbursts of tittering laughter at odd times in her lectures. Apparently, no other students had told her about this because she blushed with embarrassment when we told her this.
But, the subject of today’s post is about what I learned when I kidnapped her.
The professor was a research scientist. She did research on primates. So, a group of us decided that one of us would kidnap her in the middle of class, dressed as a gorilla. Yep, I got the duty of being the gorilla. I was in good physical shape and could walk down the theater aisle kind of like a gorilla and physically pick the professor up and carry her out of the auditorium.
We took up a collection and I headed off to a theater costume company and rented the gorilla costume. Only about 3 of my fellow students knew who was wearing the costume, and I knew that. The other 250 plus people in the auditorium had no idea who was wearing the costume.
It was a strange feeling being anonymous. It gives one a certain boldness that wasn’t there before or after.
I’m not saying that the protests/riots wouldn’t have happened without masks, but I am saying that some of the actions during the protests were affected by the wearing of masks. Seriously, in mid 2019 one would have been arrested walking into a convenience store wearing a mask.
Insight from your grumpy Uncle Dave. So, calm down and take a beeg breast…