Knives

Today got pretty interesting. I was speaking at an alternative highschool (school for naughty kids) so I expected it might be a tough crowd. I walked into the FACs class to meet the teacher, there was only about ten kids in the room, my favorite sized crowd. But then the teacher informed me that I wasn't speaking in her room, I was speaking in the gym- to the entire school. Okay...
So I walked into the gym and there was rows upon rows of chairs set up. I started to get pretty nervous at this point. Then the janitor walked in to help,
"Them your knives?" he asked and pointed to my knife kit on the table.
"Um, ya."
"You better keep them real close to you, lot of kids here would love to get their hands on them."
Oh shit. And then the bell rang and the chairs started filling up. Meanwhile my computer wont turn on. I start to get really hot, maybe I could grab my knives and get the hell out. There gym is now full of thugs and about twenty teachers, definitely my biggest crowd. I continued to fidget with my computer literally begging it to turn on. Magically the computer turned on and so I had no other choice but to begin.
And it wasn't half bad. It was definitely the most random presentation I gave, it ended up being mostly about my knives. The moment I pulled out my chef knife their eyes widened and they wanted to see my pairing knife and my sharpener and what kind of tricks could I do. I told them I could throw them in the air and catch them behind my back, but I wasnt in the mood to show off today. The didn't buy it, but they did ask if there was a class they could take simply for knife skills. Yah, for some reason the students just wanted to know everything about them, they all wanted their own culinary knife kit by the end. Instead I gave them Jicama salsa. Perhaps Im in the wrong career, maybe I should be a knife salesman?