Labor Day's a Crazy Day

I can honestly that this past Labor Day was really pretty fun. We had a cookout on Sunday because that's usually when we do the celebrating because the kids don't have school the next day, and this lets them stay up late and have some fun with everyone around the fire in the backyard and make s'mores and goof around. And before that, we usually play games and stuff -- like bad-mitten and a bunch of food and the girls do some cheer stunts and the boys play some football or baseball. And my siblings and I sit around the table on the deck and bullshit about... well... bullshit. 

So, it was pretty cool how my family was able to turn around my mood a complete 180*. I had had a pretty crappy day at work, and it didn't help any that it was the oh, so very infamous "that-time-of-the-month". 

Anyway, so we were sitting around the fire later on Sunday night, and we were just being stupid. And then someone brought up the topic of each of us telling a line of a story. There are a couple ways that you can do this little game, and the one that we did was where you have to repeat the whole story that came before -- so you repeat what everyone else said before you add your whole line. The last person then has to say the whole entire story before saying their line. 

Anywho, it was finally my brother's turn to make a story, and he added another "rule" to the story games. The last word that he said, everyone had to make a rhyme with that one word. And all of us who were around the fire were playing, so we were coming up with some pretty weird crap, considering people ages 40 to 9 were making things up. (My parents were playing it safe and sitting up on the deck just listening to the babel that decided to spew forth from our mouths.)

And my brother started the story, and this is the insanity that we came up with:

 There once was a dog who had a big butt
He pooped out a turd, it looked like a rut.
He got really angry and punched in the gut
Because he had an affair with a dirty mutt
They did it inside of the Pizza Hut
And tried to close the door but it wouldn't shut
'Cause the door really led to the tomb of King Tut
Inside, there was a snake with a golden nut
But this is really a movie and as the director, I say: CUT!

And this, folks, was only the beginning....