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Some guy I work with at Starbucks last night mentioned the fact that he could handstand, and I had to call his bluff. He's a rather tubby fellow so I told him he could get 2 seconds of vertical max. He gave me a sort of, "I'll prove it, JERK!" look, took of his apron, emptied his pockets, tucked his shirt in, and started doing those little, short I'm-about-to-do-something-hard breaths. Then he proceeded to kind of fall forward on his hands and raise his rear about 60 degrees of the ground. Everyone erupted in laughter, and I felt kind of bad.

But he told us that he was just worried about falling forward so I offered to spot him. On the second attempt, he actually did execute a handstand for a couple seconds.

Then I scooted over in front of the drivethrough window, took off my apron, emptied my pockets, and popped down into a handstand. Just to make my abilities clear, I started walking around behind the bar down to the frappucinno machines.The manager girl who recently hired me was all like, "Ohmigod. Make sure he doesn't fall onto anything!" So some other coworker newb grabbed my ankles. He was throwing off my groove so I told him just to hold my ankles upright, and I started counting out handstand pushups. By the time I got to five or so, we had a customer and it was back to business.

Later, the original handstander came up to me all quiet and was like, "I'm ashamed of myself."

I chuckled and asked, "Why?"

He said, "Well because you can do that and I can't. I feel ashamed." I felt bad again, but I told him it was alright--all he needed was a little bit of practice on his hands.

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