Lorenzo the Yogi

Yoga classes can bring out some strange characters.  I must say my already unusual class has become quite interesting with the addition of Lorenzo the annoying over achiever.  Lorenzo doesn't look nor act like anything other than the pretentious out of shape middle class male Caucasian that he is.  Since his name seems to suggest something so very different, I went ahead and clarified your visual for you.  Each Thursday evening he arrives in his tight shorts and fitted 'work out' shirt. Without fail, he will confidently lay out his mat in the front row and proceed to do his own mini yoga class while the rest of us wait patiently for our teacher to begin.  He truly enjoys showing us his 'Downward Dogs', 'Sun Salutations' and splits, each time.  Once we do begin, he then proceeds to do everything in his power to become the star pupil.  Pushing himself to the limit on every pose.  If a comment is made by another student during the course of the evening, he ALWAYS makes a contradictory statement just because he can.  If someone says "It was dark and gloomy today"  he'll say "It was a beautiful sunny day where I was".  Perhaps he commutes to Spain, which would explain his name.  The thing that usually pushes me over the top is the final 'pose' of the evening.  It has a fancy name that I won't even attempt to spell and honestly I don't even know how to say, since my yoga teacher is French and I really have no idea what she is saying half the time.  Anyway, it is a relaxation pose, one where you are supposed to be lying on the floor with your feet grounded to the earth in a very specific way.  Lorenzo is apparently too deep and advanced for such nonsense and feels the need to sit ala Buddha during the whole thing.  I don't know, I am sure I am being mean, but he is just odd.  Oh well, I guess my class would be just like every other yoga class out there that is full of middle aged women whose 'Triangles' look more like hexagons without Lorenzo.  And, maybe he isn't a jerk showing off but someone who really believes as Shakespeare did that all the world is a stage.