Hey CB! Was just reminded by a friend of a funny incident that occurred back in my high school days. It was my gr. 11 year and it was my second last exam. It was an English exam and so what they would do is give you a large booklet with subjects that you had to write upon. My exam was about 1:30-ish and whenever I planned out my day, I always made sure to walk to my gym when it was still daylight out because well... It's Winnipeg. Anyways, on that very day was my arms day, biceps and triceps had to be done. So I went in there and went hard to the paint, drop sets and giant sets and all with my partner. Afterwards it was about 12:30 so we went to get some grub to eat. I should probably mention that my partner also had the same exam as I did. We get to the exam about 10 mins early and wait outside the gymnasium before the pre-exam lecture begins. At about this time, my hand starts shaking so badly. It didn't hurt or anything, but I just could not stop the tremors that were happening in my hand. I told my friend about it and he said his fingers were twitching a bit too. I wasn't too worried. I had had some pretty bad twitches before, a lot of the time on my shoulders and it usually went away fairly quickly. However, I knew it was going to be a problem when 15 mins went by and I was staring at the front of my booklet with my pencil waving around like I was signaling an airplane to backup.

I think that was one of the worst exams I had ever written. Not that I didn't get the topics, but my writing probably would have flunked a 1st grader. I used up the whole 3 hours writing a sentence and then erasing the letters that I knew my teacher wouldn't recognize. At the end of the exam, I wrote at the bottom "I'm so sorry for my terrible spelling, I was doing some manual labor before this and my hand won't stop twitching. I promise I won't do anything like this ever again." My hand would stop trembling at some times, but then my thumb would go, and then my shoulder would go too. It was the longest twitching I have ever had to this day.

I went back to my teacher still on exam week just to make sure that I could squeeze out any additional marks in any way. She laughed when I told her my story and got me to read some of my writing in the booklet to her. I still ended up over and 85% but I certainly learned a valuable lesson that I still remind myself this day about. Don't go train and then write an exam.

Well, this was just a short story I wanted to share! Does anybody else have any funny or interesting stories about muscle twitches or spasms? I still have a lot of them (twitches) to this day but none quite as bad as my exam story...

-Primal