With warm weather everyone is always looking for ways to stay cool. Even if you are a sun worshiper and you lay out there baking like a slowly browning cinnamon bun, at some point you feel like you need to cool off.
In my family there is a history of shenanigans… especially when it comes to water.
It often starts off simple enough. Someone makes the mistake of saying something like, “sure is hot”. That opens the door for anything from an ice-cube down the back to a 5 gallon bucket of ice cold water over the head. That always depends on who was around. Uncle Ray seemed to always have a loaded water gun ready to go.
At our house yesterday the kids were looking for a good way too cool off. One of my boys recently won a full kit of water-balloons at school so it was quickly decided that dad should fill them up and they could have a water-fight. The rules were laid out in plain English no stealing someone else’s water balloons and you can get as close as you like to throw them.
Some people might not agree with the idea of getting close to throw. In my opinion that clearly means you have never used water balloons. The idea is for them to break when they hit the target. The human body seems to do a great job of deflecting water balloons, or just simply absorbing the impact, and the balloon bounces off unbroken.
It’s funny, if a water balloon even comes close to touching a blade of grass it breaks, throw it at 60km/h at a 6 year old and it bounces off. Go figure.
Hence the thumbs up on the point-blank-range.
The funny thing is, no matter the rules a water-balloon fight will always degenerate into a hose and bucket fight at some point and that’s when things get interesting!
When it’s squirt guns and water balloons it seems like observers are safe. They stand on the deck or at the screen door pointing and laughing at the kids getting drenched. Once the water guns are empty and the balloons are all popped things get crazy. Someone will decide to crank it up a notch and start filling buckets, while filling buckets, the hose will be turned on someone, at which point everyone is now fair game. People on the deck scatter and run for cover as the hose is turned on them, someone manages to coax grandma out of the house to a waiting pail of water, the neighbor gets a supersoaker to the face when they peak over the fence to see what the hub-bub is!
It’s complete chaos until it all gets shouted down by that one person… that person that was totally into it… that is until they realized… their phone was in their pocket… Whoops.
True Story.
Keep cool in this heat eh!
-Nic
