Here's the thing: Dirty Bingo (aka White Elephant) should actually be called Dirty, Dirty Bingo in my family. Last year Joel wrapped a dead crab in a box of sand, and Hooters cards were viciously stolen over and over. This year, tension were high - what would the Rouches be up to now? Among the stack of 30 gifts was one REALLY BIG wrapped box. We all steered clear of it, thinking the Rouches probably brought it, and it was probably full of tons of packaging for a dead fish or something. |
Dirty Bingo voting: to open or to leave wrapped? (Burt and Sean like the element of surprise. They lost.) |
Burt gets a harmonica, which his wife Alene later stole. Smart. |
Joel goes through more 7-11 Slurpees a day than humanly possible, so Sean and I bought this jug with the intention of Joel stealing it. Which he did. |
Bradley with two sets of PJs |
Burt later gets a nice sweatshirt |
Ben's on a mission |
And there were many slippers |
Which are always a hit |
Not only did Grandpa also get slippers |
He even got a TOE RING! |
He wore it proudly |
Lovely, no? |
Julie and Ben got skateboards |
Which were a hit |
Only to be stolen and replaced with a manicure set |
Kay got nose hair clippers |
Keith got Godiva chocolates, which Sean stole (thank you Baby) |
Whenever it was someone's turn to open a gift, we'd all yell "The big one!! The BIG one!" Then they'd choose anything but the big one, and we'd go "Awwww." Until. Little Lukas picked the big one. It took quite a while for him to unwrap, untape, and unstaple. And the gift was: |
Dylan |
That's
right - Jamey wrapped Dylan in a box, hauled him up the stairs and into
Herb & Karyn's condo, and there he stayed for an hour and
fifteen minutes, silently waiting, drenched
in sweat, for someone to open "the big one." Lukas was feeling pretty ripped off, as Dylan was his brother, so actually he already had Dylan, but then Dylan handed Lukie a ten dollar bill and all was well again. I tell ya, Dylan earned his stripes with the cousins that night. He is now a man in our eyes. |
Strange, though - as
Lukie was eyeballing the big box, at that moment I turned to Nancy and said
"Where's Dylan?" (with thirty people it takes quite a while to
figure out someone's missing). She said "Oh, he isn't feeling well."
and I nodded. At the same time as that conversation, Lukie was looking at the big box and Todd shouted "Look! It's has breathing holes!" Still, no one figured it out. Herb and Karyn had a hunch because it was quite the ruckus getting Dylan, already wrapped in the box, up the stairs and into the condo. I laughed so hard I was crying. |
Todd got boxers and Chip Clips |
And he used both |
Nancy liked the boxers too |
Val proceeds with caution opening another Rouch gift |
Smell check |
A People-Killing Wrench! |
Wes gets PJs and a hat |
Fitting |
Alene gets a tool mug |
Packages are dwindling |
The same awful tote bag from last year |
This is Todd. Todd is a Phi Delt. Todd is drinking a cosmopolitan. |
This is Nancy. She let her kid get wrapped in a box for over an hour. She is a total stud. |
Pictures
from the Catch Phrase game earlier that night. |