Scattegories!

The game Scattegories has a magical property that releases all the possible endorphins in your brain causing you to think everything is funny. At the same time, it confines your normal thinking function so that coming up with a simple, 4-letter word that starts with S is impossible.

Obviously there is a story behind this discovery. Talysa and I were at Jake's house, which seems to be the norm these days, and we were sitting around the kitchen table playing Scattegories (as you may have guessed). The challenge was finding something in the kitchen that started with N. This shouldn't have been too difficult given that we were in the kitchen and all I had to do was look around. Unfortunately, Scattegories' magical property of confining the brain took affect and I was unable to think of anything that would fit. There was a newspaper sitting in front of me but of course that didn't register. I considered knife, knee, and knuckle sandwich but of course, those didn't exactly work. I resorted to the only thing that I could think of...Nostril.

This still wouldn't have been that funny but of course Scattegories' other magical property kicked in. Jake very seriously looked at me and said "that is not possible Taylee." I was confused, of course there were nostrils in the kitchen. In fact, there were six to be exact. I told him this but he wasn't swayed. His next line was what set off the incessant laughter. "What is a nostril but the absence of nose?"

Yep I lost it. That line sent me into a whirlwind of uncontrollable giggling which of course caused Talysa and then Jake to laugh. Oh, they weren't laughing with me as they may have later claimed, they were laughing at me. Nonetheless, the entire room was in abdominal and cheek pain from the uncontrollable jolts.

We finally composed ourselves and continued the game thinking that this experience was only one of our, shall we say, unmentionable experiences, but we were surprised to find that that wasn't the case. A couple days later we called Jake's sister living in Idaho and had to tell her what happened. SHE LAUGHED, TOO! It wasn't just us, it must have been a truly, funny experience. Or so I'd like to think, if for no other reason than to make me feel better.

There are many more Scattegories experiences to be had, especially since I scored 102 and intend to break my record!

Without Wax,

Taylee