Field Day of Dreams

Posted by beth on November 29, 2008

Just before I woke up, I dreamed that I was sitting outside on a bench. It was a big, round bench with a big, round, wooden block in the middle, and there were people sitting all over it. They wanted me to come up with some kind of game that we could all play together while we waited for…something I don’t remember. So, playfully, I tackled the main instigator of the game challenge, Mario Lopez, and forced him to participate in the creation of the game by jumping on his back and announcing that we were going to play “Pair Tag.”

How it worked, you see, was that Mario and I were “it,” and everybody else had to run around holding hands with their partner. If Mario and I tagged one half of a pair, that half was out, and the other half had to continue the game crawling. This sounds unfair for the crawler, but have you ever tried to bend over with someone on your back? It is difficult, and you do not want to fall down with someone on your back. Believe me. I took a tumble with a back passenger once.

We were sort of making up rules as we went. We’d tag someone, and then they’d want to know, “So, wait…Are we both out now?” And that’s when the crawling rule came in. But then everyone was just standing there, so we ran around and tagged them all, and then they pretended like they hadn’t really been playing, or that they were already out when we tagged them. I think they were just bored with the game and wanted it to be over. Or maybe I was ready for the dream to be over. Or maybe they were all being spoilsports because they were jealous that I was riding on Mario Lopez’s back.

WhatEVer, dream people. You don’t get to come to my next dream field day. So what if it’s just me and Mario doing a three-legged race all by ourselves? We’ll win then, too, just like we did when you were there. We will have to practice our water balloon toss, though.