I saw a friend of mine today and she looked like she had the weight of the world on her shoulders. So naturally I asked her what was bothering her. So she tells me that she’s going for her seminary interview on Monday and she’s freaking out. So I said “why ever so?” to which she responded that she heard some legends and she’s terrified of getting Popa as her interviewer. (I immediately thought to tell her to read http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/im-afraid-it-will-be-popa but I didn’t, for two reasons. 1) She happens to be on the rotund end of the spectrum and would probably get insulted if she read that thread. 2) It was unclear to me whether she had actually read this thread or whether she had just heard legends from someone else; I have a shtickle raya that she did not read this thread – in this thread DaasYochid interviewed Popa but we don’t find that Popa interviewed anyone. But I couldn’t be sure that she hadn’t read it and I knew that I wanted to post about her and I was afraid that if I told her to read that other thread, she might also read this thread and realize that I’m talking about her.)
So I told her “you can’t go through life always being afraid of meeting Popa. For all you know I might be Popa.” Let me tell you, that REALLY freaked her out.