Happy Tuesday, friend!

We need to know who decided September was allowed to move this fast.

Because somehow we're already at that point where the mornings feel a little more like fall, the calendar is packed, and we're starting to realize all those things we said we'd “get to once summer was over” are now staring directly at us.

Rude.

So grab your coffee, ignore your to-do list for a few minutes, and come hang out with us because we have a very weird one for you this week.

It starts with a Star Wars LEGO collection, which sounds innocent enough, but it does not stay that way.

And later, we're heading back to elementary school P.E., where apparently the President of the United States needed to know whether a bunch of 10-year-olds could do a flexed-arm hang.

We've clearly got a lot to discuss.

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The Presidential Fitness Test

There were normal days in elementary school P.E.

And then there was the day your gym teacher apparently decided it was time to find out whether you were physically prepared to defend the nation.

The Presidential Fitness Test.

Suddenly, a bunch of 10-year-olds who had spent the morning eating Pop-Tarts and watching Bill Nye were being evaluated like we were entering the NFL Draft.

First came the sit-ups.

You'd lie on the gym floor while another kid held your feet and your teacher stood nearby counting how many you could do before your abdominal muscles simply resigned.

Then there was the sit-and-reach box.

An actual wooden box whose sole purpose seemed to be publicly documenting which children could touch their toes.

But nothing compared to...

The flexed-arm hang. A.K.A.

They'd put you on a bar, get your chin above it, and then just...

let go.

And everyone watched.

Your arms would immediately start shaking while the gym teacher stared at a stopwatch and yelled encouragement as though an Olympic medal was riding on this.

"COME ON! HOLD IT!"

Ma'am, I am nine.

Eventually your chin dropped below the bar and you'd walk away with the humbling knowledge that you had successfully supported your own body weight for 4.7 seconds.

And then came the event we all feared.

The mile.

Four laps around the track.

No AirPods.

No cute running shoes.

No little watch telling you your pace.

Just you, your classmates, and the realization halfway through lap two that perhaps you should not have gone quite so hard during the first 200 yards.

There was always one kid absolutely FLYING.

There was always a group who immediately decided this would be more of a social walk.

And the rest of us were scattered around the track trying desperately not to be the last person to finish while everyone who was already done sat in the grass watching.

All of this was apparently happening because the President needed to know.

At least that's how it felt.

We didn't have wellness trackers.

We didn't have recovery days.

We had a wooden box, a stopwatch, and a gym teacher holding a clipboard.

And somehow, we survived.

Although some of us are still emotionally recovering from the flexed-arm hang.

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Thank you, as always, for spending a little piece of your week with us. Whether you listen while you're driving to work, folding laundry, avoiding folding laundry, or hiding from everyone for 20 minutes with your headphones in, we're really glad you're here.

And if this week's Millennial Flashback unlocked a deeply buried memory of dangling from a pull-up bar while your entire P.E. class watched, just know we're right there with you.

Some things heal with time.

The Presidential Fitness Test apparently isn't one of them.

We'll be back in your inbox next Tuesday.

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