Did you know that in wrestling you can pin yourself? Well, if you did good for you because until I did it at a tournament I was not aware of that little factoid. It happened when I was wrestling a kid who didn't want to fight that hard and it felt like I just might be on the verge of my first sanctioned and official wrestling triumph when in the third period, while I was up a comfortable lead in the points the match was suddenly called. I was honestly confused because I had not pinned my opponent but I still thought that I won. When we stood up his hand was raised and I didn't know what was going on so I just looked around like I had been jugged in the head asking with my body language anyone who would make eye contact with me, "What happened?" The ref grabbed me and told me I had been winning and that I had been in control of the position but as I tried to roll my opponent over I had laid flat on my back and pinned myself in what was known in the parlance as a 'defensive pin'. Sounds better than 'idiot pin' I guess but it means the same thing. My always supportive teammates were there to offer their howls of laughter and completely unfunny reenactments of me pinning myself. Luckily for me I had dated one of my teammate's girlfriend before he had so to bail myself out of my personal shame spiral I asked him loudly if he could remember the last time he had kissed my girlfriend. He said he never had and I knocked down the set up with, "Oh, yeah that right I was just thinking about the last time I kissed your girlfriend." He thought that was really a clever way to insult him and he tried to give me a high-five on the face with his closed hand. He missed and we were separated and the what kind of idiot pins himself was changed to something about how we should fight.
