{"id":25555,"date":"2025-08-09T19:46:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=25555"},"modified":"2025-08-09T19:46:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:46:03","slug":"asian-parents-and-dixon-sux-at-purgatory-and-other-tales-from-the-hearing-impaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2025\/08\/asian-parents-and-dixon-sux-at-purgatory-and-other-tales-from-the-hearing-impaired\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian parents and Dixon sux at Purgatory (and other tales from the hearing impaired)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is well documented that #Purgatory can skew a little older in the average age category.\u00a0 That skew brings with it some humorous and\/or confusing moments.\u00a0 One example is that a few years back during prayer requests, a pax lifted up our &#8220;aging parents&#8221; but many of us heard &#8220;Asian parents.&#8221;\u00a0 Of course that led us to think of the scene in Animal House when Bluto talked about when &#8220;the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.&#8221;\u00a0 But overall, it&#8217;s a delightful group of pax who are always willing to work hard.\u00a0 (well mostly, but that&#8217;s ok Boo Boo has to have someone to talk to about anything and everything)<\/p>\n<p>On a morning with wonderful temps and a crotchety Q, large numbers decided to come out to a Ragnar-friendly beatdown!\u00a0 The pax kept rolling in and looked like they generally didn&#8217;t get out of bed just for coffeteria afterwards, so the Q tried to help make the time pass quickly!<\/p>\n<div data-pm-slice=\"1 4 []\" data-en-clipboard=\"true\"><b>Warmorama<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>SSH<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Copperhead Squat<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Arm Swirly things<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Mt. Climbers<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Merkins<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>IW<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>The Thang<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>Mosey tennis courts<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Doracides &#8211; suicide to each service line &#8211; 1 squat jump, 2 squat jump, 3 squat jump<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>100 Merkins<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>200 LBC<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>300 Squat<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>400 Overhead Claps<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Mosey to Rock pile, small rocks<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Dodo Bird x 10 IC (raise arm to the side and then out front)<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>lap<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Repeato x 3<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Mosey to track &#8211; partner up<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Catch us if you can<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>P1 starts running with dodo rocks<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>P2 &#8211; 10 merkins<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>one lap around park<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Return rocks<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Mosey to Lido Deck<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>5 merkins, derkins, irkins<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Step ups x 10 each leg between sets<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>6 Minutes of Mary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Freddie Mercs<\/li>\n<li>Mutton Crunch<\/li>\n<li>Hip Bridge to Nowhere<\/li>\n<li>Peter Parker<\/li>\n<li>Plank<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FIN!<\/p>\n<p><strong>NMM<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pony does not like running with rocks<\/li>\n<li>YHC always thought Boomerang was being difficult when he asks multiple times for instructions to be repeated, but beginning to think he just doesn&#8217;t understand or remember how things go.\u00a0 (he&#8217;s retired, so we should be nice to him)<\/li>\n<li>Tuna Roll was very gracious when he got stuck with YHC as a partner on Catch Me if You Can.<\/li>\n<li>Boo Boo talked about Boo Boo things with various pax, walking slower each time<\/li>\n<li>During prayer requests Starfish shared that Chicken Biscuit will be leaving an in-patient recovery program this week.\u00a0 YHC then said &#8220;Addiction sucks&#8221;, well when you combine YHC&#8217;s tendency to mumble and the declining hearing of many pax, they either heard &#8220;A Dixon Sucks&#8221; or just &#8220;Dixon Sucks&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Most pax thought it was plausible that YHC would say something like that<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is well documented that #Purgatory can skew a little older in the average age category.\u00a0 That skew brings with it some humorous and\/or confusing moments.\u00a0 One example is that a few years back during prayer requests, a pax lifted up our &#8220;aging parents&#8221; but many of us heard &#8220;Asian parents.&#8221;\u00a0 Of course that led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purgatory"],"acf":{"q":"BAM","date":"08\/09\/25","pax":"Piggly Wiggly, Interference, Bluto, Linus, Tuna Roll (WB), Starfish, Pony Express, Lamb Chop, Mutton, Superfly, Bootsie, Brown Bag, Green Acres (WD), D-Day, Hotdish, Comrade, Roundup, Boo Boo, Boomerang, BAM (QIC)"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25556,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25555\/revisions\/25556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}