DAT Posting

DAT: Day After Thanksgiving, a crazy day when we get up too early, go like crazy, and stay up too late. What could be better?

My DAT this year. Get up at 4:30a.m. Leave the house at 5:15a.m., arrive at Penney's at 6:00a.m. Meet up with family and friends. Shop for the next 7 or 8 hours.(with a Starbucks break in the middle) Hurry home again around 2:00p.m. Grab a bowl of soup for lunch, change clothes for Frisbee, got to a pawn shop in Ash Grove to look at
22's for a brother. Leave pawn shop and go to Willard for a couple hours of Frisbee, the traditional DAT game in our social circle, or anytime for that matter. Leave Frisbee with everyone else that was there, and go the lucky host for the years house and have supper. After supper a game is suggested. Everyone gets a piece of paper, writes the beginning lines to a story, balls it up, throws it in middle of the room, grabs a different persons ball of paper and continues the story started. This is repeated several times, and then the results are read aloud. Before all of them have been read, parents announce that it is time to leave. Go home, do chores, crash into bed, sleep in the next morning. A great day!

Here are a few of the stories, for your reading enjoyment. Please keep in mind that they were written by multiple, overtired people, and that I have copied them without any editing :)


Political:

Once upon a time there was a frog. This frog’s name was Bob, and Bob had a problem. He had no lilypad on which to live. So Bob went on a quest to find a home. First he went to a pig. Now this was a very stupid pig, and when Bob asked him what to do, he answered, “well just get a big new yard and be happy”. “But,” Bob said, “that would be a suboptimal solution to my present quandary, so I muct eliminate that as a possible option. Do you have any others at the top of your head?” “No.” the pig said. So Bob went along on his own merry way until he encountered another frog, who happened to be his great aunt Agetha. Aunt Agethea agreed to buy him a brand new, multi-million dollar home, with money barrowed from the government. So Bob lived happily ever after. The End

Once there was a bird. It was a short fat bird that couldn’t fly. He had really low self esteem. There lived in a house next door, a very skiny cat, who had a hard time finding something to eat, and it did not have a tree to swing in. So the cat asked the bird to help him hang a swing, in order to raise the bird’s self esteem and the swing. But really, the cat was a democrat who just wanted to have state health insurance, so he ate the bird and used the case as evidence to support his cause. Being a democrat, he got away with it. The end.

Love and Marriage:

At one time there was a dude and he liked to say “yo”. One day he got a snowboard, but he couldn’t use it on the beach where he lived. And he was mad. So he decided to move to Alaska, where there was much snow. When he got there he discovered a copiois number of blueberries, which he proceeded to demolish with great rapidity. This beong done, he got so sick, he never wanted to snowboard again. So he sold the board and moved back to the beach. So on the beach he met this pretty girl. She happened to be playing tennis (his favorite sport). Eventually they ended up talking under a tall palm tree......about growning cabbages. It was both of their favorite vegetable! Wonder of wonders! They decided to get married in a cabbage plantation, and lived there happily ever after, growing cabbage. THE END.

Rain pounded the raod making Ellen slow her car to a mear crawl. It had already been a wretched day and she was hoping to make it home before the storm hit. What a day it had been. She had forgotten to re-stock the cabbage at the grocery store where she worked. Then on her way home she wrecked her car, which is why she had not been abole to beat the storm home. Beating her head against the stearing wheel, Ellen whished to be whisked away to a far away land. How wonderful that would be. As if her wish was granted, the rain ceased, the sun came out, and a man came up to her car door. Opening the door he bowed low, offered his hand, and said "We were ment for eachother love!" With this said, they got married and lived happily ever after. The End.

There will be more of these as I get them typed up.

That's all for now!

God Bless,

R