Flamingos. Mostly pink. Long beaks. Long necks. Long legs. Short stubby body. Odd creation by God.
Well before I married my husband, I knew his family had a thing for flamingos. Oh, it is not a love so to speak, but an oddly outrageous obsession. It's not an obsession of love, but one of shear terror and horror and laughs and gags.
It all began with a very old pot. Someone in his family got the idea to hide the pot at another family member's home as a gag. This pot was passed throughout the family as a joke. Someone finally wised up and decided a pot is hard to sneak in and carefully place. This person would be Gma Mumper. She hid the flamingo as a gag and soon it became an out of control frenzy of flamingo placing, secret dancing.
The flamingo is all about pink and quirky fun. The idea is to sneak a flamingo into the person vacinity (house, yard, car, garage, garden, laptop or camera bag, or as a gift). The person whom it left for or given to is greatly loved...and the main point, you ask. Do not get caught.
Rules for flamingoing:
- Any flamingo will do...be it big, small, bright or dull. Inside or outside, in funny clothes or none at all.
- If you're smart, you'll label who the flamingo is going to live with. This little trick prevents you from getting him back again and gives the secret away...thus leaving the oppenent hard pressed with a permanent non-matching houseware.
- It's best if you sneak it and let all others peek it except for the victim. A spot well chosen is best in the open and obvious, but more vicious is hidden hard.
- You cannot flamingo someone with the flamingo they gave you until it has been to someone new.
- Given as a gift is best for then they have to share with the rest.
These rules are simple and fun. Best of all, it doesn't have to be a flamingo (though they are rather fun). Perhaps you'd prefer a platypus or walrus or kiwi bird or hyrax or possum?
Any way you go, you're sure to have good clean fun with flamingoing family and friends alike!
1 comment:
My sister-in-law's church does the flamingo thing a little differnetly. They have the youth go flamingo the yard of a church goer and leave a note on the door saying, "you can leave the flamingos here and we'll come get them in a few days or you can pay $5 to get them removed or pay $10 to get them removed and have flamingo insurance so that they'll never come back." It's all in fun and if anyone doesn't want to play they can tell the youth leader in advance. It's a cute fund-raiser idea you might think of at your church or something someday....love you lots....
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