Thursday, May 10, 2007

One of my most successful comedic performances has got to be my rip-off of Dana Carvey's Grumpy Old Man character from SNL.  It was fun to pretend to be old.

Last night, I really felt old.  I was overseeing the youth as they played a variant of hide and seek, and I realized that there was something going on that I had never experienced.  The youth were using their cell phones to call each other and brag about their hiding places and trash-talking with the seekers about how they were never going to find them and such.  It was so interesting.  When I played hide and seek as a kid, not even our parents had cell phones!  Now everyone has them.  It was just a bizarre revelation.

Thursday, May 10, 2007 9:02:18 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
The hiding places must be getting better, too. When I was a kid, I had to stay really quiet in my hiding place to keep from being found. Now they can chatter away on the phone, and still not be found!
Thursday, May 10, 2007 5:41:13 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
My hiding places were so good that I just yelled insults at the seekers and they still couldn't find me...when I was a kid.
Andrew
Friday, May 11, 2007 8:44:19 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Silly children. They don't know that by making such noise, the seeker can sneak up behind them and scare the fool out of them. Oh well. I'm sure you taught them the errors of their ways. ;-)
Friday, May 11, 2007 8:47:54 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
When the seekers were close, they would revert to noiseless text messages. :)
Saturday, May 12, 2007 1:16:20 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
In my day there was no place to hide, so we just tied a blindfold on the one who was seeking, and then we'd make fun of him and poke him with sharp sticks until he bled all over the ground. Then he would take off his shoe, if he had one, and threw it to see if he could strike one of the hiders. If that didn't produce a little blood, he'd pick up a rock or the legbone from an old carcas and swing it around til he hit someone. When he got a hider pinned on the ground, then he'd tie the blindfold on them and the game was on again! Woopeee!
Thursday, July 12, 2007 9:07:53 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Haha, that was such a good game. And to the person who spoke about throwing shoes during hide-and-seek - we do that during capture-the-flag. I threw my shoe at Jeff in anger and he threw it in the woods. That made me angry again so i threw my other shoe at hime...which was also promptly chucked into the woods.
Gabe
Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:40:33 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
If I recall, one of those shoes came back and hit you in the face later, relieving you of your glasses.
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