Several weeks ago while on a lunch break from work I drove by a park and noticed a group of people lined up, waving their arms and legs in unison. For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out what they were doing. In fact, I had never seen anything quite like it before. I slowed down a bit and from what I could gather, they were going through some sort of martial arts motions. I watched them for a few moments and then continued on, perplexed by what I had just seen.
Upon my return to work I told an employee about what I had experienced. He passed it off like it was nothing special and explained that they were most likely doing Tai Chi, which is an internal Chinese martial art that some people practice for health reasons. This explanation made sense, however I felt just a little bit embarrassed since I had spent the drive back from lunch excitedly calling all of my friends to tell them that there were people in the park fighting invisible ninjas.
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September 29, 2009 at 8:29 am
sillionshine
I wouldn’t put too much stock in what the employee told you. It is a well known fact that one of the disadvantages of being invisible (whether you are a ninja or not) is that your movement slows right down, but one of the unparalleled advantages is that you aquire the ability to fight in perfect choreography with your forty closest friends.
I have nothing but the deepest of respect for these park heroes, who are really the only thing that is standing in the way of us being cut to shreds by a a chorus-line of highly skilled, slowly moving ninjas.