My boss (God bless him), is limited to only speaking in colloquialisms and idioms, which to me is great as all he ever says is “in the first instance…”, “within reason”, “to a degree” and so on… and I can quite happily mock him behind his back. Anyhow, he was telling a story about when he had a fight when he was younger (and wilder) in which he punched a guy on the chin and caused the guy to fall through a shop window. The story was enriched by the idiom: “So I went to give him the good news, and much to my surprise he fell through the shop window behind him.“. It was one of those funny moments that catch you by surprise.
Which was much like the occassion where he was telling me how he punched a horse in the “face” for biting him on the shoulder. The whole idea of punching an animal had never seemed to have crossed my mind until he spurted it out so liberally.

Subject change:
Good news! got my results for simester 1:

• Eng. design A-,
• Building technology B+,
• Prof. practice A,
• Bridging studies B

I’m really happy about that!

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