Sometimes adults need a break from life, a chance to revisit their adolescence, an opportunity to let loose and play. That's what my friends thought they were doing last night.
The game was "Cops and Robbers." Five couples divided into teams (boys against girls, of course) and tried to spot each other while they trekked back to base, hopefully without being seen. Each team had to stay together, and they were declared "out" when they were spotlighted with a flashlight from the other team.
My friend Tina was one of the cops at the time. Together with four other friends, they drove up and down streets in the neighborhood hoping to catch their husbands dressed in black before they reached home base (i.e., the park).
Shortly before they reached the park, they spotted five men dressed in black. Excited, they spotlighted them, yelling, "We caught you! We got you! Come back!" When the men kept running, they chased after them, perplexed that their husbands were cheating. They were supposed to stop when they got spotlighted.
Tina and her entourage didn't catch their husbands, so they went back to home base--the park. Their husbands were already there.
"Why didn't you stop when we caught you?" they asked.
"We were already here when we heard you yelling," they explained. "But we did see five teenagers dressed in black sprinting through the park scared out of their minds. Oh, and they smelled like they'd been rolling doobies."
What started as a simple game of cops and robbers ended up as an accidental drug bust by five middle-aged moms! Oh the irony!
3 comments:
That is hysterical! What a great story - and you all managed to get juvenile delinquents with drugs off the streets. What a great story. The husbands must have been hysterical that the women were unknowingly chasing down teens.
Hahaha.... I know you told me this story on the phone tonight, but I had to read it too. So funny!
the story is very amusing. but middle aged? not quite!
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