Instructors - keep your MP3 player charged up!!!

Today I was asked to substitute for a Saturday morning class at the last minute. The club is a big, nationally known chain & this class is very popular. My legs were DEAD from the day before (hill repeats) but I said sure. Otherwise, they'd have no class.

So, I go to plug in my MP3 player - nothing, zero, ziltch. Hadn't charged it in awhile. I had no other music. I asked the class, "Does anybody have any music they'd donate?" One sweet little college-age girl brought me her cute little baby blue IPod which was loaded with RAP music. :eek: I just about DIED when the first song was exhorting expletives about women. It got no better. Without turning my brain on first, I remarked to the class, "Gee, this is the kind of music that makes me roll up my window at stoplights." Good going.

Anyway, I got through it. I had never head any of the songs so I had to wing it. And rap - well - it doesn't really have verses, refrains, etc., so there's no telling how long the song goes on (at least I couldn't make head nor tails out of it.)

All of the spinners were good sports & thanked me at the end of the class. I am now convinced I can teach any class, anywhere, anytime.

And my IPod is fully charged. And I'm now carrying CD's of my profiles, just in case.

There is no accounting for what people listen to - and it was must have been a quite a shock, her looking like a sweet college girl! Who would know? Bravo for looking for solutions and forging ahead, not letting your followers miss their class...

Too funny! Thanks for sharing!!

You could have asked the class "can anybody sing?" ;)

Boy, that's a great way to reinforce remembering something. Humiliation, embarrassment and disgust. I know you'll never forget again.
I would have just died... :eek: