The given words at The Sunday Whirl are weapons, energy,
food, pick, transform, walk, breathe, view, deep, practice, path and run.
Crouching in a deep hollow, they had a perfect view of the path. Soon their foe would walk past the bunker. The atmosphere was tense, their nerves on edge. Their arsenal of carefully picked weapons was close to hand. After days of practice and preparation, they were ready for anything. Breathe deeply lads, breathe deeply.
The attack came
suddenly. The enemy ran towards them, bombarding them with missiles. A shower
of soggy sprouts was followed by a riot of rotten cabbage cannonballs.
They retaliated
with a cascade of stale cupcakes and a barrage of mouldy bread rolls. The food fight was in
full flow.
Twenty minutes
later, energy sapped, they emerged from the ditch defeated, hands held high. The
loser’s punishment was to clean up the battlefield and return the spent weapons
to the garbage bins behind the supermarket from whence they came.
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Nothing like a good bun fight ;)
ReplyDeleteEven better with cream buns!
DeleteWasn't a lot of food to waste in my day, there used to be pig swill collection bins!
ReplyDeleteI'd forgotten about them until I read this! I suddenly feel old(er)!
DeleteWe used to throw tightly formed balls of mud. Called it "Dirt Wars". We came home such a muddy mess!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea - I'll try that next time! Thanks Marilyn.
DeleteIt always made me wince to see the custard pies splatted in slapstick comedy and pantomime: my wartime childhood ingrained in me abhorrence of waste for fear of going hungry. That said, I felt the joy and release in your story.
ReplyDeleteIt is a sad fact that bin loads of perfectly good food that's just passed its sell-by date, are dumped by every supermarket in the land, every evening. So don't waste it, fight with it! It's far safer than the nuclear alternative!
DeleteAlas too much food being wasted... maybe it's a good use to have a little fun with them.. but now it's collected to make bio-gas. I remember jelly-fish wars though..
ReplyDeleteYou are right of course, it does have a secondary use - or thirdary after I've finished with it!
DeleteWhat fun! (Somehow I get the feeling that you did this sort of thing as a youth, and relished it.)
ReplyDeleteFour Tanka
Oh dear, you've got me sussed! It was fun though.
Deletean eating contest is cool.
ReplyDeleteNow that's an idea! Thanks.
DeleteBig smiles for this. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased! it does you good to break away from all the deep intense stuff now and again!
DeleteI don't remember who had the idea, or even how it started, but we got bags of little green peas and had a pea-shooter war in our backyard. Every child in the neighborhood joined in. My brother (the oldest and probably the instigator) claimed my dad's work-shed with his friends. They won the war, but they also had to clean up all those little hard peas. It took days. Those tiny buggers sting when they hit. Thanks for the memory,
ReplyDeleteElizabeth
Goodness me, I'd forgotten all about pea shooters! Thanks for bringing the memory back.
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