Sunday, March 18, 2007

Unexpected Fun

What great fun... found in unexpected places. An exercise ball. It's intended function is to torture the human body by making it work in unconventional ways, thus forming glorious toned muscles. We, collectively as a young adults group, decided to change it's function. We did not stray far, however, as human torture was most definitely involved. While crashing Pam and Gerrits' house on Friday night, we all started to get rather rough with these exercise balls. It turned into a full on battle when people started whipping them at each other from across the room. A couple times the guys went flying, exercise ball in hand, directly at each other. One landed hitting the wall, the other unfortunately had a worse fate. He ended up crashing against the closet doors. But oddly enough, after each fatality we found ourselves increasing in laughter. It was our true human nature revealed, we enjoy others pain. The more intense the pain, the more we enjoyed whacking each other to the ground with the rubber weapons. And the air. These things can really send you flying, it's unreal. So, as all of us know... in keeping with human nature, the fun had to end at one point. I was the point in which it ended. It was my overly aggressive swing the sent the ball straight across the room. So, aggressive, it caused a chain reaction of events: knocking someone to the ground, bouncing back up several times and eventually taking out a light. There was a bit of flickering, when finally the light died. The laughter, however, did not. And thankfully included in this chorus of laughter were Pam and Gerrit, proud renters and for the night maybe not so proud exercise ball owners. It was at this final stage of our fun where dreams of caged light fixtures in basements having no personal effects began. Dreams of rooms which would lend way to full out battles where perhaps the injuries would extend further than a mere light bulb. I will not soon forget this night of unexpected fun, with the exercise balls.