Saturday, September 8, 2012

A Little in the Middle

Got back from overnight camp with the 8th graders. Fun times on the high ropes, but exhausting. Also enlightening. For instance, learned about Fart Baseball. Bet you've never heard of it.

I heard of it when our group's ropes facilitator let one rip while we were working the Tree Leap. That's the thing where you climb up like 25 feet in the air on this tree, stand on a disk at the top, and jump off. I did it to prove my bravery and trust to my 8th graders.

Anyway, the guy just passes some loud gas. We all look at him like WHA?! He says, "Oh, I forgot we weren't just playing Fart Baseball."

Fart Baseball goes like this: each fart you produce that's either audible or smellable counts as a base. 1st fart is 1st base. You try to do four (HOMERUN!) before anyone can break in with their own audible and/or smellable fart.

Super, right? Think 8th grade boys liked that? Think I didn't hear random calls of "2nd base!" and "3rd base!" as the boys were ascending the climbing wall on Friday?

Yeah. Happy weekend.

4 comments:

mm said...

Only middle school boys...
Wait, only boys...
Nope, only males in general

jdoc said...

How have I never heard of this game before? MM, I'm not a male, but I think I could be pretty good at it :)

kc said...

The sad truth is that I am excellent at Fart Baseball. Of course, I refused to play with my students (decorum!); but I played Shef and whooped him.

jdoc said...

Dave and I played this morning. Well, I played and Dave guffawed. I won, of course.