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Adam plays Baseball - Adam and the
Hot
Head)
Adam decided that he wanted to play baseball. He talked to his mom and she
signed him up for the league. His mom was a
good
head, she always supported him. When it was time for the first
practice his coach asked him if he was
a hot head.

Adam didn't know what
a hot head
was and he didn't know how to answer this so he answered that it's
heads or tails as to if I'm
a hot head
or not. Neither the coach or Adam knew what each other were saying.
The coach was
a hot head
so he told Adam that he'd better
keep an eye open or he'd give him a
fat lip and that he didn't appreciate the
lip Adam was giving him. He said, If you
lip me off any more I'll
take your head off!! Adam wished that he hadn't opened his
big mouth, because he hadn't meant to be rude to his new coach. He was
a little mad at the new coach but he didn't want to get kicked off the team
before his very first practice. He wanted to give the coach a
taste of his own medicine and really
lip him off, but he was certain that if he did he would get his
ears pinned back
and be thrown off the team in his first minute of his first practice. His
mom had taught him that sometimes when you get mad it was best to
keep your head, calm down and not
add fuel to the fire!

He decided he should
swallow his pride and apologize to the coach, so he did. He said,
Coach, I didn't mean to
lip you off, I didn't know what you meant when you asked me if I'm
a hot head
so I just said something so I didn't look stupid. The coach (who was
a hot head)
just replied,
Cry me a river.

Adam had no idea what that meant but he didn't want to get a
black eye so he didn't say anything because the last thing he wanted was for
the coach to think he was giving him more
lip! The rest of the practice was OK and he did enjoy the practice and
was looking forward to the start of the season. When he got home he asked
his mom what
a hot head
was. His mom told him that it was someone who got upset easily. She
said that
hot heads
are no fun to be around. His mom asked him if his coach was a nice man.
Adam didn't want to
blow the whistle on the coach.

If he told his mom that the coach was
a hot head
she'd probably make him quit baseball or even
add fuel to the fire and go yell at the coach. He wanted to play
baseball and was willing to put up with a coach who was
a hot head.
It was either put up with his coach or miss baseball. Keeping quiet about
the coach
won by a nose and so he said, Mom, my coach is the nicest guy you could
ever meet. He hoped he wouldn't
bite the dust for lying to
his mom, but after all, baseball meant a lot to him and it might be true, the
coach might be a nice guy even if he was
a hot head!
His mom said that she would like to make a bet that he would hit a
grand slam in his first at bat. Adam knew that the chances of that
happening were very small so he said,
Put your money where your mouth is!
What do you know, Adam's mom was right again. He did hit a
grand slam in the first game and he also hit
a three-bagger.

Adam and the coach got along just fine from
then on, even though the coach really was
a hot head.
Idioms in the Story:
Hot
Head
good
head
keep an eye open
heads or tails
lip me off
take your head off
big mouth
lip
fat lip
taste of his own medicine
keep your head
add fuel to the fire
ears pinned back
swallow his pride
black eye Cry me a river
blow the whistle
won by a nose
grand slam
a three-bagger Put your money where your mouth is!
bite the dust