Andre is a very special bouncer, employed by Ahmed at his exclusive Los Angeles club (an article on Ahmed can be found here:
www.devastationstudios.com/blog/2007/09/10/ahmed-the-club... ). By special, I mean it in the same sense that the Special Olympics are special. Andre has always been a little slow. He started Kindergarten 2 years later than his peers, and by the time he made it to high school, he had failed so many grades in elementary and middle school that he was literally a decade older than his classmates when he entered his first year of high school.
Andre did find his niche however, joining the high school Junior Varsity football team as a linebacker. However, due to his “slowness”, he did not know his own strength. Andre had always been a large guy, and as a linebacker he held the statewide record for most injuries inflicted in a single season.
Mid way through his Junior year, Andre was in a game with a highly ranked team from out of town. In one play, as he was charging their linebackers, he bent over too far, and his head crushed straight into the chest of the opposing team’s linebacker. The impact pushed his head into his rib cage with such force that he was never quite the same. He was so dazed, he only managed to injure three of their players in this game.
He wasn’t able to get accepted to even the least prestigious school after “graduating” (his coaches had enough pull at the school to get his grades good enough that he would be eligible to play every game, and these grades allowed him to graduate). However, even with this on his resume, he had great difficulty getting even a low level job. Fortunately, one day Ahmed came across him when he was practicing his Frisbee skills in the park, and saw potential to be a bouncer at his new club, particularly considering the fact that Andre had no knowledge about the existence of the “minimum wage”. He has worked there ever since.
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