Living in a college dorm for the last year, I've had my fair share of prank wars. Ice water poured onto someone in a hot shower, Icy-Hot on the toilet seat, a room filled ankle-deep with flyers, all good fun. The mistake came when I decided to pull one on my ex-girlfriend. A quick fill-in about her, and us:
It was the worst relationship ever. I was drunk and hooked up with her, and she managed to turn a one-night stand into a three-week "relationship." I broke up with her because I couldn't stand her anymore, and she said I broke her heart. Unfortunately, I was still best friends with her roommate.
So this girl, we'll call her Kim, LOVED Boggle. She was a pro. She would break out the Boggle game like Billy the Kid would draw his revolvers at high noon. While playing, you couldn't talk, you couldn't make jokes, or even let out a silent fart, lest you bring on a stern glance from her. To be fair, she was amazing at it. I would get, say, four words, and then sit there feeling like a retarded chimp while she furiously scribbled away a list of 50+ words. No one ever beat her at Boggle.
About two months after the breakup, we were friends again, and how do I show my friends I love them? I prank them! So I thought this would be a funny idea: super-glue the little Boggle cubes into the tray, so when she shakes it, nothing happens. She shakes harder, looks at the game in a confused manner ... you get the picture. Pretty funny, right? Her roommate had the genius idea of spelling something out with the little cubes, so we looked at the letters, and came up with this:
GOOD
LUCK
Carroll
We were pretty pleased with ourselves. So we made with the glue, put the game back, and forgot all about it.
Fast forward two weeks, when a banging on the door wakes me up from my slumber at 2 am. "JAKE!!!" comes a shrill banshee scream from the other side of my door. "I'M GOING TO Frost-ing KILL YOU!!" It's Kim, and she's acting as if I had raped and stabbed her dog in front of her. I decide to cower under the covers, like any grown man would, and pray that she will go away, which she eventually does.
I talk to her roomie the next day, who is sore from laughing so hard the night before. Kim wanted to play Boggle, and by that time everyone in her room had heard of my prank. They were all waiting with anticipation as she brought out the Boggle board ... opened the box ... put the little sand-timer down ... shook the tray ... and of course, the glue held.
She looked at the board, read our little message, screamed and threw the board to the ground, smashing it with such vigor that little Boggle cubes went flying everywhere. My friend commented that she look like Moses smashing the Ten Commandments, only, it was Boggle. She was incoherent, and screaming hysterics, while all of my friends laughing so hard they were crying. She knew who had done it right away, and that's when she headed down to my room.
She demanded I buy her a new Boggle board, which I eventually did. I got forgiveness, and we all got a healthy laugh. In conclusion, Boggle is a stupid game for people who feel too good to use spelchek on a computar.
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