The downside of playing the role of a rude little gingerbread boy

Jeff Simmermon says, "I used to be a rude little gingerbread boy in a touring children's theater company. We did three or four shows a day across Virginia, DC, and Maryland. It was my job to escape from a large, sweating woman in a fox costume, and usually I did. I learned that if you're doing something as a joke you're still doing it, and you might end up kicking a kid in the face. I told this story at The Moth in SoHo in early September.

I Was A Rude Little Gingerbread Boy As A Joke On the World. It Backfired.