“We dare you to go running up and down the street saying here comes the aliens all dressed in goo. Truth or dare?” They asked my parents and me. “We will,” Denise’s parents said at the same time.“Okay Finley’s. “Who’s going to start?” Denise’s father asked. Now that was a major surprise to me.Ĭhapter2: The Aliens Are Here, Pee Boy, and the Canners “I haven’t played that since I graduated high school.”Įveryone agreed that we would play Truth or Dare. “So what game shall we play?” My mom asked. By the time my dad and I got settled we started. I could name all of them Jen, Bill, Matt, John, Jessica, Angel, and Denise. I thought they were just going to look sophisticated and well behaved, but they look just like the kids at my school. When I got downstairs I was surprised to see normal looking kids sitting down. But since they are my parents I will go along with it. I would rather die than play “Family Game Night” with my parents. We play games that the parents and the children will both enjoy.” “So you want me to stay up here while you guys play your game?” “Sam today our friends are coming over for game night,” he said with an overjoyed look on his face, like when he sees our dog, Jenny, roll over onto her stomach. One day I was just sitting in my room drawing and listening to music when my father came in. Well that is how I used to think of my parents but ever sense we played truth or dare I think much differently of them. 56).My parents are some of the most boring people alive. Pelicans & Chihuahuas and Other Urban Legends. Some tellings of the legend end with the sodomizer dead at the hands of his victim and his victim-turned-killer now serving a life term in Leavenworth.
The GI is often said to “beat the crap” out of his tentmate upon discovering what he’s been up to. Whereas the college version generally ends with the discovery of the perfidy, revenge is almost always exacted on the perpetrator in the military version, either by the soldier acting on his own or with the help of his buddies. (Both tellings involve predators who drug their victims with alcohol.) The story has spread widely in the United States over the last twenty years or so, generally set in military barracks or campus dormitories. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, and it was included in Gershon Legman’s Rationale of the Dirty Joke. While searching through the items his roommate had left behind this student discovered a beaker of ether and a rag in a large zip-loc bag.Īs Brunvand notes, this legend has been mentioned in print as far back as 1886, in Richard F. He returned to his dorm room to discover that his roommate had hastily moved out and had dropped out of school. The sluggishness was due to heavy drug use. The doctor seemed puzzled because he explained that the cause of the student’s pains was due to being sodomized on a regular basis. After the exam the doctor asked the student if he was gay. This went on for a week or two before he sought medical attention at Cowell. Apparently his roommate had been using ether on him to knock him out while he, um, had his way with him.Ī guy in the dorms would wake up in the morning feeling sluggish and experiencing abdominal pains. It was discovered that he had a high level of ether in his bloodstream. A guy went to the doctor because of pain in his rectum. A few summers ago, a friend of mine at work told me a story that supposedly happened at the school he went to.