This is totally daft but I thought I'd tell you all about a really nutty game my family and I sometimes play. It started off when the kids were young and I was trying to extend their vocabulary...you know, away from the usual grunts and yeahs...
It became so popular, and ridiculous that we now sometimes do it in public, and the other people have no idea what's going on, but we do, and we dare ourselves not to laugh till we're out of the building, or wherever it is we are.
Before we start speaking to someone, (best it's not someone you know for starters...leave friends and aquaintances for when you're better at it)......right
You all agree on three words........they can be any words, but they must be quite unusual....let's say....
Hedgehog
Bewitched
Maestro
They must not be related to each other....
Then in conversation with the stranger you have to drop these into the conversation, all three, not together, and make it sound as if you're not a nutcase.
And of course, you must play it well not to make fun of the stranger.
I tell you, when I went to buy my car, the kids and hubby came with me and the salesman was our 'target'.....If I remember rightly one of the words was 'breakfast' and another was 'wallaby.'
Please don't ask how we got there, but it ended up with us asking if he'd been to Australia, then something about seeing wallabies in the garden whilst we had breakfast.
It sounds mad but it's hysterical when you're trying to do it.
In fact, think what you'd say if the words chosen for you were....
Spaghetti
Elephant
Transvestite....
