I tried to pick a hobby to pick on my sermon for an illustration that people wouldn't identify with. So I chose Turtle Racing. So I was quite surprised when three college students found me afterwards and told me that I'd hit too close to home for one of them. Apparently, he and his brother "trained" turtles for their town's annual turtle race each year. I asked him how they trained the turtles & he said, "I don't know. We really weren't cause if we did anything, they'd just go into their shell, but we thought we were doing something." Anyway, it was pretty funny. I guess no illustration is safe.