Distractions are a wonderful,
wonderful thing. And with the probable loss of Dillon, any distraction is a
good one. I think I have talked about this already but we do experience a lot
of downtime here in the store and people have to find ways to entertain each
other. So, we want to reward those who come up with creative games to help
stimulate the mind and keep us occupied (or distracted). Jennifer came up with
a pretty good Kindergarten game but it worked because everyone was in on it.
She put a random amount of jelly beans
in an empty jelly jar, sealed it with the answer inside and then had everyone
record their answers. She even went Price is Right style where you had to guess
the correct number without going over. In the event that everyone went over,
the closest to the actual number of jelly beans would be declared the winner. A
further twist is that all the entries were secret ballot, so you could not see
what everyone else was bidding and then bid one bean over the highest amount or
just bid one bean. It was really quite smart.
The stakes? An extra night’s stay in
the Private Bedroom. People were all about that prize. It was so intense that
people started doing taunts and blatant misdirection to try to throw off other
people’s bids. I know some people, not saying any names (Luke), that were
claiming to have already entered their bid when they really still had their
ballot to try to influence the bids.
As a reward, since Jennifer came up
with this idea, she was granted an addition night’s stay in the Private Bedroom
at the end of the rotation. We really need to think up more redneck style games
to keep us all occupied. Beer Pong? (Alex has to drink Mountain Dew.) Reason’s
did try to capitalize on that fad by stocking ping pong balls in the beer
section. We could do Cornhole. That game seems easy enough to manufacture.
Water balloon fights on the roof.
We need stuff like that to keep our
mind off things. I’m off to go see what we could make bean bags out of for
Cornhole. Unpopped popcorn and zip lock bags? That has the potential to get
messy if a bag breaks. Women’s socks? That has potential. I need to see what
all kinds of clothes Yulonda brought with her from Dollar General. Maybe she
brought a few packages of socks…
