Yesterday I witnessed a Chicken McNugget eating contest. The winner ate 61 McNuggets in the allotted 35 minutes. Second place ate 54 and the third and final contestant ate 41 and in the end he left most of his Nuggets in the parking lot and behind the bushes. I personally ate two as I watched and that was more than enough to know that I would be pushing my luck if I ate more than ten of those horrid little things. There were probably about 10 or twelve of us there to witness the contest and one guy even video taped it. When entry number 3 "hurled" the crowed went wild. The whole event took me back to a time in my early twenties when I used to hang out with a lot of guys. I forgot how fascinated and excited we can become when we are in a mob. Things quickly degenerate to the lowest common denominator and we love it and we keep pushing it lower and lower. After all that excitement I couldn't wait to get home and tell the CEO all about it. I should have quickly keyed in on her look of disgust but I guess I held out hope that the punch line of it all would drag her in and let her see the humor. "...and one guy lost it, he threw up all over the parking lot and in the.......you don't think it's funny?" I guess I can understand where she's coming from but for me be it sophmoric, childish or whatever I still think it was hilarious.
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I, too, am known for having a sense of humor that has been frozen at the elementary school level. My husband cannot believe that I laugh out loud every time I see someone plow into a wall/donkey/car door on "America's Dumbest People's Videos" etc.
On the topic of "things guys do that are absolutely at the nadir of testosterone-driven contests"...At a recent office ski trip, my husband told me about a contest called the "Atomic Wildman Shot Contest" (or something like that). Each contestant first snorted some salt, then squeezed lime juice in their eye, took a shot of tequila and then got kicked by another participant in the "junk" (as they said). Not quite the same as a McNugget contest, but same genre.
So sorry I missed it.No, really! I am.
PS Can you imagine a bunch of chicks coming up with this stuff??
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