We hosted an event at our house a couple summers ago, and it’s a little bit hard to exp- explain, but it was essentially a tournament for this really obscure sport, and then there’s a lot of like secondary activities. And one of the other activities was a new talent show. So it was announced maybe a month before the event, which was a weekend thing. And the rules were it was a talent show, but it had to be something that you learned or taught yourself basically in that month. So you know people did like stand-up and played instruments that they had just learned how to play, and my husband, what, what he wanted to do was tap dancing. And, as a joke, he signed up one of our other friends to do tap dancing. Not with him, separately. And sort of the whole month, my husband had the intention of learning, like, a little bit about tap dancing, he ordered the shoes and stuff, and he just kind of never got around to it. He was busy finalizing details for the event. And by the time the event happened, I remember looking over and seeing him as people are pulling into the driveway, in the corner of our garage with a YouTube video pulled up, trying to learn one or two steps of tap dance.
So anyway, this friend that he signed up, we get to the day of the talent show, and he goes first, they wear the same size, so he borrowed the shoes, and he does amazing. Like, I’m not kidding when I say genuinely almost borderline professional tap dancer: like, so good, amazing, to the point that I could not — and still kind of will not — believe he is not. I keep calling him the “Secret Tapper,” like I think that he had years and years of tap dance training as a child or something. Like, I just can’t fathom that he genuinely made that up on the spot. And then it was like extra — it was highlighted how much, how good he was — underscored, I should say — by the fact that my husband went shortly after and did not tap that way. He was not a “Secret Tapper.” So comparing the two it was beyond amazing because the friend of ours learned that day of the, of the show that he’d been signed up and — I can’t remember now, I think we also signed him up for the activity. I don’t think he was able to pick that, so yeah. He learned he was tap dancing and then just blew everybody away. It was really something to behold.