Aaaah, recess with unruly children. Gotta love it. Has anyone else noticed that kids today don't know how to play ANY of the good old playground games? No Red Rover, no kickball, no keep away, no clapping games, no hot potato, no four square, no hopscotch...
And, some kids just can't be taught. For example, I tried to get a rowdy bunch of boys going on one of the simplest playground games there is - tag. Not too complicated, right? I tag you, now you're "it." You tag someone else - now they're "it." And on and on and on.
These kids really need to double up on the ritalin, because it didn't take long for tag to deteriorate into Lord of the Flies.
"Okay, Stevie - I tagged you, so you're 'it.' Now you have to go tag someone else, and THEY'LL be 'it.' Okay?"
Okay...I tag you, and YOU!
"No...honey you only tag one person at a time. One person tags one person...Understand?"
(Child 1) Okay! I tag you and YOU!
"No, honey - that's not they way you play the ga...
(Child 1) BUUUUT STEEEEVIE DID IT!
(Child 2) Hey! No fair! He got to tag two people! I wanna tag two people too!
After the 4 or 5 tags, I couldn't tell who was "it" anymore - could have been anyone...hell, it could have been EVERYONE! But they were keeping themselves entertained, and no one had gotten into a fight or fallen off the monkey bars or been bitten yet, so I figured what the hell - they're having fun, and that was really the point of the whole thing anyway, so... viva la difference!
UNTIL...one of the little monkeys came flying out of nowhere, whallopped me upside the head and screamed, "TAG! YOU'RE IT! HAHAHAHAHA!."
And while I lay there on the grass, protesting loudly that I only started the game, another &$#! little monkey flew in from LEFT field and leaped off of a POST into the middle of my stomach, landing so hard that the impact left a HOLE, knocking the wind out of me and leaving me gasping for breath and seeing stars...
DPG original blue (BOOYAH!)
LFD
PAM '64
Illusione f9
black label tat
Las calaveras (new!)
Asylum
Opus
WTH??? Tag team tagging? Is that even legal????