My Sign Flipping Friend Miguel!
Prior to blogging I used to train for the world strong man competition. Day in and out I would be at the gym making sure that I was ready to try to compete. It was no easy task. I would go lift for about two hours at a time and sometimes it would be twice a day. It was very rough on my muscles and my back and I would regularly wake up with pains and constant aches. I cannot tel you how much relief there was from rubbing some Freeze It Gel on my muscles.
Lets fast toward to today and the last couple of weeks my friend is having super duper back and joint pains. He said he tried everything and hasn’t been able to help him with pains. I asked him ” are you SURE you tried everything”? He looked at me funny and said “uh..yeah..”. I laughed and said okay. At that time he was clearly upset at me and a few minutes later I heard “WHAT!?”. I told him he needs to keep his voice down because my head was hurting and he exclaimed “ouch my back”! I slapped him on his back and told him to Freeze It. He said, “I haven’t tried that”. I told him I am sure you didn’t because otherwise your back would be back and in great working shape so that you could go back to your weekend love of flipping signs for houses…I know what your thinking, THAT is his love? He had a infatuation a few years ago with John who was, in his eyes, the God of sign flipping. The twirls, the motions, and the sweet sweet direct flips that he would do that twirled and danced around his body so made my friend love the job of sign flipping. My friend has started and continues to work pro bono. He says he does it for the art. His sign flipping name is Miguel which is not actually his real name. Unfortunately, he does not want me to use his real picture so I found a picture of the sign he enjoys flipping.
He flips, twirls, and dances with that sign like he was made to do it and in the grand scheme of things, born to do it. His real name is not Miguel nor is he Latin but when he does his “thang” he does, to many accounts including my own, turn into Miguel Sanchez Rodriguez! Anyhow, he is back to his flipping gig and one day he hopes to be on the sign flipping pro circuit. Hopefully he does because that is, indeed, his life long passion.
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