trumpet_man

Ok, here's another really good one, this was definitely one of the longest-lasting hilarious moments I can remember. Anways, it was the state highschool marching festival, and our band traveled to the town in which it was being held. Let me start off by saying that our town, that I will call New York (which it definitely is NOT) and another town I will call Chicago (which it certainly is NOT), are about 20 miles appart. Both of our towns only have one highschool, our highschool has about 800, 60 of which are in the marching band, and their numbers aren't too far off. Let me start off by saying that we are enormous rivals, we hate each other, we have a huge rivalry, one of the many good qualities we have that they lack is pride. They think they are uncomparibly better than us ("but need to boo at us to prove it" if they WERE, they really wouldn't have to prove it), but WE are the ones that can easily walk circles around them with our right arms behing our backs (which they refuse to recognize). Anyway, we both got graded with 1 being the best and 5 being the worst, WE GOT A 1!!!! but they only got a 2, and this was only our first year, but their 2nd.

So anyway, before we started the marching festival, we hung out at the mall for 2 hours (as well as MOST of all the other highschools doing the marching festival). Every highschool was wearing their uniforms (well, not their marching uniforms, but shirts that had our school colors and everything, but not the actual uniforms yet). So everyone knew who was from what school. Anyway, it only took 40 minutes to eat, so we still had another hour and 20 minutes to kill. Needless to say that all of the girls were in a mall, and they never have trouble killing time there. So all of us guys (all guys, 100%) planned on going over to the mini golf course. Needless to say it was packed since the mall really got hit by highschool marchers from around the state. We all realized it was no fun at all playing at a crowded golf crouse waiting on others and having others behind us rushing us. We all agreed that we needed to find an alternative (I for one at the time had wanted to play golf, but was glad we went with the alternative).

One of the seniors thought of a game they had played on a previous trip to pass time. Here is what you do: break up into groups of 4 and come back in an hour and 20 minutes to see who has the best score. Every group is to split up and go around looking for people to follow. You would follow people very closely, going their same speed without saying a word, and once you got a reaction out of them (not just a comment, more than a comment, a reaction), you would add up more points, or until they turn around at you. Here's how the scoring worked: junior high 10 points per head, highschool, 3 points per head, college, 5 points per head, and the points for each head that is a female. We would just have to guess their age, younger than junior high would scare them which would go against our pride, and after college they wouldn't be very good candidates. Also, when they seize to move, start circling around them like sharks. Let the games begin:

I was in a group of 4, our plan was to have fun and be the last to report our scores, so that we could "just barely win". So we never kept score. We started out following some highschoolers not in marching and they begin to realize they were being followed after about 15 seconds. They tried walking a little faster: so did we. One of them said "I think they are stalking us", and they turned around and fled. Another time we were following some girls and they might of realized this, because they seemed a bit uneasy and gradually begin to ease up on their gossiping into a dead silence and turned around and chewed us out. Man, that was fun, the TOUGHEST part of the game was holding a straight face. Another time we had to abort because our candidates took a turn into the underwear section. As well as the time once they realized we were following them, the girls all went into the bathroom. Once we followed these college girls in target. They might of realized something was going on, but new it right away when we started taking the same aisles as they did. One of them said "stupid highschooler are following us", so they went to the feminine jewelry section and we stood beside them. I could hardly keep from laughing when we starting holding up earings to our ears and saying "how do you think this one looks one me?" pretending to be shopping for earings also. Once we followed this girl who actually thought it was funny, so we started visiting with her and telling her what we were up to and said "there are other groups in these shirts doing the same, if they start following you, turn around and start following them, it'll confuse the heck out of them". Later, we found some candidates from "chicago", and puny freshman too, we started following them and they were a little scared but were shocked when they turned around to see it was "new york". "Run!!!!!!! they are going to kill us" one of them said. You should've seen the look on their faces. LMAO. Later, we were following a group, and one of them turn her head into a display window beside and was shocked when she saw the reflection that gave away that they were being follow, because they just realized this all of a sudden, not gradually. It was also funny to do it in small stores, like shoe stors where they feel awkward, but we mainly did stay long in any store. One time a security gaurd say "what are you guys up to", we were just about as shocked as some of our candidates, I was like "ummmm..... nothing in particular really" , a bit nervous. but we were all relived when he said "I mean, what are you guys doing... are you guys marching this afternoon" now knowing that he was referring to us marching, and not aware of our little "game". Wow, that was a close one. We all took a big exhale of relief when we were out of his sight.

I'm sure that there were some other funny ones that slipped my mind, and funny comments. But and 1 and 20 minutes of solid hilariosity was definitely rememberable, and could not remember everything. We had so much fun doing that.