the hallway pastimes

Many a good time have been experienced in the hallway.

It seems as though that we humans, when in the possession on spare time and a hallway, will almost immediately attempt gymnastics. Even if we are not gymnasts. Much like as though we were in an open field on grassy goodness. But a hallway is usually far from being open grassy goodness. In fact it's the complete opposite: inside, most commonly narrow, hard walls, and hard floors, and sometimes a very low ceiling. So why attempt gymnastics? Is it the overcast feeling of impenetrable doom? We get a thrill from the idea of maybe, if I really suck at this trick I am about to attempt, I will ram into the wall, which will result in either annoying the people on the other side, damaging the wall, damaging ourselves, or damaging others...or a combination. It's great. But that is not all you can do in the hallway. Let me give you some great examples of hallway pastimes.

Firstly, there is always the option of simply sitting in the hallway and chatting. The only trouble associated with this is thin walls and loud people. Nevertheless, I enjoy it. Next, well, more destruction, because that is what is really fun isn't it? Recently, my good friends Spencer and Nate and I have been spending some good quality time in the hall playing games not often associated with hallways and also coming up with new ones. So far, the games include frisbee, bowling, and ping pong battle. We all greatly enjoy frisbee, so one day instead of going outside, we chose to simply throw one in the hallway. Fair warning, doing anything involving throwing in the hallway with Nate is dangerous territory. You see, there are these great things called sprinklers. Nate likes to hit them. Spencer and I do not care for taking that chance. Nate thinks it's funny. Anyways, hallway frisbee is a GREAT way to work on throwing straight, as that seems to be a weakness for many people. Other tricks to master: lightly bouncing the frisbee off the wall and making it go around a corner, neither of which I have even come close to mastering. Now on to bowling. Spencer had the great idea of hallway bowling, so we took a trip to Walmart and what did we find as soon as we walked to the toy aisle? A miniature plastic bowling set. Awesome. He purchased it and I purchased one of those fantastic plastic bouncy balls. We went back to the dorms and set up the bowling. I sucked at it at first and he was really good. It took me awhile, but by the next day I rocked and he sucked. TAKE THAT SPENCER! Nate, well Nate just likes throwing things and instead decided to treat it as baseball. Baseball: also a great hallway pastime. He's become pretty good at knocking off the pins one by one. Then the other night, they invented a new game of ping pong battle with a barrier in the middle of the hall. All you have to do is try to hit the other person with the ball and not get hit. Simple enough, but very enjoyable. The girls across the hall didn't much care for it, as it was pretty loud. But enjoyable nonetheless.

Hallway games are great. So my challenge to you kids is to create a hallway game of your own, because sometimes you just don't want to, or can't, go outside. And really, who doesn't like to try their hand at avoiding impending doom? I'd really like to try a mixture of kickball and cricket with my cool bouncy ball.

have good days