It's finally happening!

Mike and I first met at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA. We were in the same platoon but I was in the Persian Farsi class and he was in the Indonesian class. Just about the only thing we did together as a platoon was PT on Fridays. During the week they had us exercise as a squad, but on Fridays we all played a game together. It was my first Friday at DLI and I wanted to show everyone that even though I was very small, I was capable. A teammate threw the football to me and I jumped as high as my little legs would take me to catch it. Mike (6'1") stepped in front of me (5'2") and without jumping, or seeming to exert himself at all, swatted the ball out of the air before I could get to it, looked down at me, shrugged, and said "grow".