Walking Away

Sometimes you just want to kid around with Laila Ali. People do it because they know that she can box. You dare yourself to throw a punch at her for fun and dreaming what it would be like if you could box too. One day I peeped into Laila's gym window. I went into the gym where she was working out. I got into the ring to box with her. She looked at me funny and said, "You crazy, and you know I don't fight little women. So take your little self right on back where you came from. Stop dreaming."

At first, I stepped into the ring grinning, but I felt insulted when she called me little. I wiped the grin right off of my face. I said, "I don't give a rip.  Don't be calling me little. Little my elbow. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. That's a true old saying. Get up big mama. Lets box."

Laila looked at me looking like her father. She sat in the corner of the ring. Laila rolled her eyes and tried to ignore me looking in another direction.

I said to Laila, "You make me sick with that mess. You just trying to avoid a fight with me and don't want to give me a chance because you think I'm not good enough. Now, I know what those other girls were talking about that you wouldn't box with."

Laila said, "Yea, and I fought a whole lot of them that were no good and anxious to get in the ring with me. What happened? They got their !!!@@@$$$ whipped. You don't want none."

Laila Ali was really looking down on me, and I was feeling just like all of the other girls she fought. I wanted to beat Laila Ali and prove to her that I could fight. To Laila, I was just another looser. I stepped up to Laila as she was sitting down. I was going to punch her in the jaw, but my fist froze up and said, "I'm not going to hit her. She will break me." Laila stood up and all I could see was her stomach because she was taller than me. I had to look up to see her face. She had wrinkles in her forehead and daring me to hit her with her expressions. My feet carried me out of the ring. I walked out of the gym and peeped in the window at her. I was like a little re-run because I was right back where I started from. I was standing and gazing and dreaming. Laila Ali sat back down in her corner like she was doing when I first walked in. I walked away in good shape with no broken bones. However I was not satisfied. This is Gail Nobles on Laila Ali News Adventures saying so long with love.