Curling... ow ow ow
Nov. 9th, 2005 04:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothAs a joke, my lead suggested Curling as our next morale event a while back, and by fiat the dev manager decreed that it would be so. And so today, we went curling.
Ow ow ow.
Curling involves running on lumpy ice with a broom, trying to decide whether or not you need to sweep in front of a big rock to make it travel further. Otherwise, it's pretty much identical to Bocci Ball.
Throwing the rock involves sliding a long way on the ice. That part was not so dangerous, but I still managed to injure myself (pulled a muscle in my calf... the same one that always cramps up when I do anything athletic). Sweeping involves, as I said, running on lumpy ice, and I fell about five or six times, managing to bruise myself and, at one point, knock the wind out of my lungs, but not actually injure myself either.
No one else fell even once. This is because they are all secretly evil cats, who exist only to mock my clumsiness.
After we'd lost our game five to nothing, I retired to the lounge to recover, while most everyone else gushed over the game and played a few extra sets.
Bah! Humbug.
Ow ow ow.
Curling involves running on lumpy ice with a broom, trying to decide whether or not you need to sweep in front of a big rock to make it travel further. Otherwise, it's pretty much identical to Bocci Ball.
Throwing the rock involves sliding a long way on the ice. That part was not so dangerous, but I still managed to injure myself (pulled a muscle in my calf... the same one that always cramps up when I do anything athletic). Sweeping involves, as I said, running on lumpy ice, and I fell about five or six times, managing to bruise myself and, at one point, knock the wind out of my lungs, but not actually injure myself either.
No one else fell even once. This is because they are all secretly evil cats, who exist only to mock my clumsiness.
After we'd lost our game five to nothing, I retired to the lounge to recover, while most everyone else gushed over the game and played a few extra sets.
Bah! Humbug.
