Nerfing Out

Top Chef is on.  The chefs are cooking.  Terms I don't understand are flying around.  Tension is building.  Everything looks delicious.

And then the power goes out.  CA and I are cast in darkness, and worse, we're without Wi-Fi.  So what do two young happening guys like us do?  We break out the Nerf guns.

Maybe it's a good sign for our status as so-called adults that I had almost forgotten we even had Nerf guns.  I was actually slightly surprised at the size of our arsenal (two assault rifle type things and three handguns), which I would put up against anyone on our block -- especially the people at the end of the street who are for some reason flying a Canadian flag.

You may remember me writing about when we got the first guns a few years ago.  At the time, it seemed like a great idea, though it's possible we didn't use them as much as we thought.  But on this day, I'm glad we had them.

CA and I played a few rounds of HORSE, which works the same way with Nerf guns as it does with a basketball.  One of us would make up a shot, like standing in the living room and trying to get our dart to stick to the sliding glass door in the kitchen.  If the other guy missed, they got a letter.

We ended our Nerf session with our own version of skeet shooting, which involved using an empty Cran-Grape juice bottle as our target.  It was shockingly difficult to hit, but I am proud to report we stuck with it until we both accomplished that very important task.

And then of course the power came back on a few minutes later, and we returned to our regularly scheduled program.