Last night we dismissed our plans to view a movie after being invited across the alley to a BBQ.\u00a0 Since so many were arriving, we brought our BBQ over to help handle the giant mass of food to be cooked.\u00a0 Our neighbour’s son’s fiancee was celebrating her birthday so we had a few new faces in the mix.\u00a0 Early on in the evening, the boys pulled down the tailgate on a truck parked in the driveway to add extra seating.\u00a0 Drew, Amanda and Ryan had plates of food on their laps and had been sitting on the back of the tailgate for a while when there was a loud banging sound.\u00a0 There they were, flat on their asses on the concrete with the tailgate at their backs.\u00a0 The chains holding the tailgate to the back of the truck had separated.\u00a0 Amanda had a look of deep shock across her face while Ryan was nearly rolling on the ground in tears – laughing of course.\u00a0 Drew, true to his natural reaction, took one look down at his plate of food in his lap, picked up a chicken kabob and continued to eat as if nothing had happened.\u00a0 None of the three of them are overly large indivduals and I’d be shocked if their combined weight reached 600lbs.\u00a0 Apparently that was enough to break the tailgate however.<\/p>\n
Between bouts of loud laughter the others in the area kept asking if everyone was alright.\u00a0 Thankfully, aside from a few bruised egos, everyone was fine.<\/p>\n
Later, Les brought out a screaming monkey to throw around the yard.\u00a0 It’s a stuffed monkey with elastic arms and a small electronic device in the chest that “screams” when the monkey is sent flying.\u00a0 The boys proved they had rotten aim – usually off by a mile when trying to send it from one to the others.\u00a0 Then Mariah got her hands on it.\u00a0 Years ago she was a champion marksman and has competed at the national level.\u00a0 While her fiancee jokingly told her to “aim for the head” she let loose a monkey flying at 3-5x the speed of anything the boys had previously managed.\u00a0 Drew, in what we assume was an attempt to catch it, deflected the monkey off his wrist and into his eye.\u00a0 Within minutes he was developing quite a shiner!<\/p>\n
A few hours later while he was cleaning up the BBQ grills, Drew dropped the cover on his hand and jammed his thumb.\u00a0 ‘Twas a night of bruises and abuse for a guy who’d barely had anything to drink.\u00a0 I think I may be able to relinquish my standing clutz<\/strong><\/em> title to him.\u00a0 If nothing else, we have some great stories to tell on Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night we dismissed our plans to view a movie after being invited across the alley to a BBQ.\u00a0 Since so many were arriving, we brought our BBQ over to help handle the giant mass of food to be cooked.\u00a0 Our neighbour’s son’s fiancee was celebrating her birthday so we had a few new faces […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-family","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}