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WotD: Wannabe
Every one of us has been a wannabe at least once.
Come on, tell me you didn’t want to be a baseball player for the Orix Buffaloes and catch a throw from Area 51.
Perhaps you wanted to join a girl group and dance on stage like Morning Musume or AKB48.
If you’re an avid reader, you may have dreamed of becoming a prolific writer like Agatha Christie or J.K. Rowling.
If you’re a wannabe, you want to be like someone else or be a part of a group or clique.
You may even try to model yourself after them by dressing or talking like they do.
Back in the day when I was young, Happy Days was a favourite TV show centred on a diner and a bunch of kids.
I always wanted to be like the Fonzie character because he was so cool, and I was not.
When people thought of cool, they didn’t think of me.
The Fonz, as he was called, was the epitome of cool, and I was a wannabe cool kid. Unfortunately, I never did become cool.
The Fonz wasn’t the only guy I wanted to emulate.
There was also Patrick Roy (pronounced Wa), the star goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens.
Roy was always a bit weird – they say he talked to his goalposts.
I felt an affinity with him because he was strange, and I was a little off the wall, too.
Goaltenders, you see, often have a reputation for being weird.
Naturally, if you’re going to make a living by stopping hard rubber pucks that super-strong men wack at you with a stick, you have to be a little crazy.
I was a wannabe Montreal Canadien and would pretend to be him.
Funnily enough, when I was about 24-25 years old, I met him in person in Vancouver while he was there to play the Vancouver Canucks.
He was a nice guy.
I was never a good hockey player.
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