Beach ball ice skating?? - photo credit Creative Commons:bytegirl24
We had beautiful weather this weekend in the Mid-Atlantic region, and after our Mother’s Day festivities yesterday I went for a seven mile run.
One of the things I saw was a group of kids playing with a beach ball – trying to keep it off the ground – at a birthday party in a park near our home.
It got me thinking of concerts I attended in college, when I worked the ticket booth at an amphitheater.
Every show, someone felt it was their duty to bring a beach ball to the event and start knocking it around.
It was fun and a sure sign of summer.
That got me thinking about some inappropriate places where beach balls might be less appreciated. Here’s a list:
10. An IRS audit
9. A colonoscopy exam
8. A prison riot
7. Arbitration for a divorce (this one is iffy since a celebration might be in order in some cases.)
6. A root canal
5. Virtually any meeting between Vice President, Joe Biden and President Obama after Biden speaks publicly on a dicey topic, forcing the VP to hop away with his chronic case of foot-in-mouth disease.
4. A typical CIA information gathering session replete with waterboards and fire hoses.
3. Any meeting of the Republican National Committee as they try to identify a viable candidate for this year’s presidential election.
2. The quarterly review of your 401(K) statement.
1. The birth of a child (I’ll have to ask my wife about this one…)
Question: Any other plays where a beach ball might be inappropriate?
