The Adventures of Tap

I’m back from Christmas break, and after a couple of days of doing nothing but going to class and watching seasons of 24, I decided I should get back into the blog of things. And what better way to get back into it then with two classically comedic tap adventures?

Every Christmas my family likes to get a new board game. This year it was the board game Cranium. The game really gets you thinking, and those yellow cards, the ‘Word Worm’ questions, really are quite difficult. The other categories are ‘Star Performer’, ‘Creative Cat’ and ‘Data Head’. It was during a game of Cranium that I had a rather nasty encounter with a sizable fruit, all thanks to a creative cat category that had each team doing charades.

The event to act out was ‘food fight’. Everybody knows what a food fight is, and since it was charades, I never thought it could possibly lead to anything more than a few laughs. I was wrong. At the start of the timer, my sister (on an opposing team) jumped up from the table, and ran into the kitchen. Curious as to why she would run away from the game, I started to turn so I could get a good look at what she was doing. Just as I was able to see her out of the corner of my eye, something large and relatively dense smashed into the side of my head, sending my glasses flying and snapping my head around. I was completely stunned.

As I came out of my momentary daze, I realized everybody around me was laughing their ass off. In front of me on the table, there was a ruby red grapefruit. My sister, for some unintelligible reason, had decided that her charade of a food fight should involve real food. She had rushed into the kitchen to grab something to throw at me. Now, why she didn’t decide on something less lethal, like a strawberry, cracker, or even the much smaller tangerine is beyond me. Apparently she had only meant to hit me in the shoulder (still far from pleasant) but, because she throws like a girl, and hit me in the side of the head instead. I was so overcome with the hilarity of what had happened that I was laughing too hard to feel any pain. No real harm done.

I am thankful that it hit me however, for if I had not turned my head, the grapefruit would have sailed right past my head and taken out my grandmother, and NOBODY would have been laughing then!

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