I didn't feel like an asset at work
I was a bit arrogant
I was told to get my hand out my pockets
I did not apply myself.
If I was on the tills
I probably would have been sacked.
I preferred the shop floor.
At lunchtime there was a rush
With workers, school kids.
And I would get nervous
Looking for baked goods
On the tills. As I had
Been on a crash course
But new products
Popped up all the time.
My team mate went
By with her mum
And burst out laughing.
I was bemused and
She pointed to my trousers
And went "drain pipes!"
And a lady who was
On another department
Said that I should
Take the hems down.
When she spotted me afterwards.
It wasn't the caffeine pills.
I ate my food and had
A sugary drink,
And that dispelled the headache.
In time I even plucked
Up courage to get a skirt
Because a lady at the gym
Said she never seen me
In girly clothes.
Another girl I went to school
With shot past me with
Paper and there you were
With sponsorship and backing
Just like I said you needed.
My grandfather was
The one who suggested it.
But I wasn't good enough.
You won at patterns and sparring
At every competition.
When we trained in Glasgow
The coach would say
"I want to fight you!"
And he knew you had
That something special
But I'm not sure if
Taekwondo was an Olympic sport then?
Of course you still had
A shot at being a world champion
And opened your own gym.