To be young again
For some lucky reason our work had decided to put together a company picnic. Now why we are lucky is the fact this would mean we could attend and get the afternoon off, granted you had to stay there but hey it beats working. If you didn't want to go then you had to use time off for it. I went and had a blast. They did some team games to get everyone to know each other more since my section recently became a part of this bigger group. We had to pick a sucker out of a box as well as a color strip which ended up being our teams. More on that later. Turned out I had some luck going. I noticed my sucker on the bottom was blue. Turned out there was only 2 winners. One from my section and one from the old section. My gift? 2 tickets to the Indians game on August 26th and they are kind of behind home plate so it's like wow. That was just to start off my day.
They gave each team a disposable camera to take pictures throughout the afternoon and I can't wait to see our pictures! I wish I had taken my digital with me. We did this ice breaker thing to answer questions and our group went and started taking some pics with everyone on the swings goofing around. A friend of mine was goofing around on one of those...well they are hard to describe but it's usually some animal on a big spring and you can basically rock back and forth. Then I climbed up this rock formation (it was part of the playground) and she snapped a pic. Then it was off to the real games. We CREAMED this other team in 80s trivia. In fact we were the top team getting 11 points. Our opponents had 1 which was also their first question. The next closest team to us had 6 points.
After that we had to put together a small like commercial skit since we work with insurance. Ours was alright. My idea was better but the one guy kept going on rambles and trying to turn it all serious and like our current commercials. I don't think he realized that to win it was going to take laughs. In fact the team that won had people laughing almost the entire time and had done like a top 10 thing for why you should have Progressive. Like one girl was with Allstate and said she couldn't stay with them because she can't trust herself in just anybody's hands. For Prudential this girl was like the only rock I'm interested in is a diamond. It was things like that to kind of goof on other insurance companies and was just great. I jumped in at the last minute and added one of our only humor moments. We pretended an accident and then the one insured with us got repaired through a program we have quickly. The other person called their insurance (Geico) but got no luck. I faked being the Geico rep and acted like I was busy doing my nails before I finally answered the phone only to say we were closed for the day to mourn the death of the Gecko who had died the previous day in a car accident and to like call back tomorrow or something. I did it totally like eh who cares attitude from the rep. I think we ended up being the 3rd or 4th team out of like 6 teams. Anyway overall our team ended up winning it all so I got 2 more little gifts (a CD visor holder and a coffee cup). But hey I got my tickets so can't complain.
Now the highlight...we had a break to just do whatever and me and 5 other girls hit the playground again. We started off with a swing contest. Myself and one other girl got the highest but then it was a matter of trying to stop. LOL Granted being older now we didn't have that option of getting off the swing like you did as a child...which would be jumping. LOL Then it was off to the playground. We went down the slides, climbed the rock wall, climbed up the different things, just were crazy. I had to laugh because having the backside I got slides don't go well for me. I was playing around sitting at the top of a slide (thankfully it wasn't too big). I joked that the only way wide ass people could go down was to turn sideways and I did and next thing I know I was on my way down. LOL Trust me it caught me off guard. I was like woah! There is a picture of that. Someone snapped one. Once I get pics back I'll post some. But it was such a good time. Just fun to kick back and be carefree in a way.
They gave each team a disposable camera to take pictures throughout the afternoon and I can't wait to see our pictures! I wish I had taken my digital with me. We did this ice breaker thing to answer questions and our group went and started taking some pics with everyone on the swings goofing around. A friend of mine was goofing around on one of those...well they are hard to describe but it's usually some animal on a big spring and you can basically rock back and forth. Then I climbed up this rock formation (it was part of the playground) and she snapped a pic. Then it was off to the real games. We CREAMED this other team in 80s trivia. In fact we were the top team getting 11 points. Our opponents had 1 which was also their first question. The next closest team to us had 6 points.
After that we had to put together a small like commercial skit since we work with insurance. Ours was alright. My idea was better but the one guy kept going on rambles and trying to turn it all serious and like our current commercials. I don't think he realized that to win it was going to take laughs. In fact the team that won had people laughing almost the entire time and had done like a top 10 thing for why you should have Progressive. Like one girl was with Allstate and said she couldn't stay with them because she can't trust herself in just anybody's hands. For Prudential this girl was like the only rock I'm interested in is a diamond. It was things like that to kind of goof on other insurance companies and was just great. I jumped in at the last minute and added one of our only humor moments. We pretended an accident and then the one insured with us got repaired through a program we have quickly. The other person called their insurance (Geico) but got no luck. I faked being the Geico rep and acted like I was busy doing my nails before I finally answered the phone only to say we were closed for the day to mourn the death of the Gecko who had died the previous day in a car accident and to like call back tomorrow or something. I did it totally like eh who cares attitude from the rep. I think we ended up being the 3rd or 4th team out of like 6 teams. Anyway overall our team ended up winning it all so I got 2 more little gifts (a CD visor holder and a coffee cup). But hey I got my tickets so can't complain.
Now the highlight...we had a break to just do whatever and me and 5 other girls hit the playground again. We started off with a swing contest. Myself and one other girl got the highest but then it was a matter of trying to stop. LOL Granted being older now we didn't have that option of getting off the swing like you did as a child...which would be jumping. LOL Then it was off to the playground. We went down the slides, climbed the rock wall, climbed up the different things, just were crazy. I had to laugh because having the backside I got slides don't go well for me. I was playing around sitting at the top of a slide (thankfully it wasn't too big). I joked that the only way wide ass people could go down was to turn sideways and I did and next thing I know I was on my way down. LOL Trust me it caught me off guard. I was like woah! There is a picture of that. Someone snapped one. Once I get pics back I'll post some. But it was such a good time. Just fun to kick back and be carefree in a way.
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