Consequences

Yesterday (Tuesday 1st January 2013) my family and I went to some really good friends' house for dinner and a fun evening. We chatted quite a bit (to catch up as we haven't seen them in absolutely ages) and we also played a fun game called Consequences - it's better to have about 6 people playing. Here's how it goes:

• Each player starts off with a blank piece of paper.
• First of all a male name is written on the top and the paper is folded over.
• The paper is passed to the person on their left (or right - doesn't matter so long as the papers pass in the same direction)
• Then a female name is written on it (don't peek at the male name) - fold the top over to hide the name and pass the paper on
• Then write where they met (doesn't have to be a town or city - we had the poop deck of the Titanic as something someone wrote). Fold the paper and pass it on
• Next write what the man said to the woman - fold and pass on
• Then write her reply - fold and pass on 
• Finally write the consequence e.g. she ran away crying
• Put all the papers in the middle and each player chooses one so that the 'story' can be retold.

So when I was writing one of mine (for example) I thought of this story:

Hairy Harry Pickleswade
Victoria Fudgecake-Smythe
School kitchen near the toilet block
"Do you fancy a date?"
"No I fancy the postman"
He went away with his tail between his legs and a long face, but what would you expect from a horse)

OK the 'story' is really silly but it gets sillier because my 'story' wasn't written on one piece of paper, but 6 seperate ones. So the story may have ended up saying (for example)

Hairy Harry Pickleswade met Hilary Clinton on the poop deck of the Titanic. He said to her, Whatcha luv?
She said - I ate a mango for breakfast. The consequence was, they drank sodas on the beach. 

The next story may read:

Attila the Hun met Victoria Fudgecake-Smythe on moon base alpha. etc

We were in stitches at some of the stories :)