I’ve often thought “toss your cookies” was a particularly cute description for puking your guts out. I mean, really, tossing makes me think of gently lobbing a pillow onto the bed and throwing up is nothing like that. We won’t even venture into the cookies portion. Seriously, if someone knows a food that tastes delightful going down and coming back up then I’d love to know it.
Never mind, I don’t plan to eat for puking ’cause that’s just gross.
I have to say I pretty much suck at anything involving the word toss. The egg toss at elementary school field days was my worst nightmare, and I’m old enough to have played that in the day when it involved an actual egg. (For my non-school peeps, did you realize they stopped using eggs for this?? The last one I went to they were using a wooden egg and I gotta say, where’s the fun in that?) The stress of the egg arcing toward me, wondering if I’d accidentally crush it between my hands and end up with yolk dripping down my arms…that stress was only matched by my need to toss well to my partner so they didn’t end up with dripping yolk. Add in cheering and jeering spectators and there’s one source for my high blood pressure right there.
Carnivals that offer a ring toss are just as unlikely to have me lining up to play. It’s just too much pressure! This has got to have more to do with my inner workings than the act of tossing itself since plenty of people don’t seem to have any problem lobbing a carnival ring or clamoring to do the egg toss. Something in me winds tight as a clock and I don’t need that sort of stress.
Linda hosts Stream of Consciousness Saturday. This week’s prompt is “toss.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!
Wow. That “thingy” on your side panel (what ever those are called ) about Tamir Rice and the wack-job woman with a real gun!!! What malevolent double standards we have in this country!!
oh…good post!
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What’s the point of an egg toss if there’s no danger of the egg breaking?
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I have literally no idea, Dan. The modern field day is a mystery to anyone born before 2000.
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The ring toss games at carnivals are usually fixed, anyway.
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That’s what I always told myself but deep down I figured that was just positive self-talk. 😆
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We played with a real egg too. I was horrible at it. I did enjoy ring toss though. Trying to get the ring around the bottle was an obsession. A sure way for the church picnic/carnival 🎡 to make money 💴.
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And the fundraising is the whole point. Good for you for doing your part! 🙂
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Then there’s the old tabor toss where kilted big ole Scots toss telephone pole sized trees to see who can throw it the furthest. I’ll stay with ring toss thank you. I wonder why they got rid of the egg? The threat of kids eating raw egg I suppose.
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I do wonder. It’s more cost effective not having to replace them year after year but yeah, losing the breakable factor takes something out of it. Tree tossing has never been top of my list of things to participate in. 😆
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I never liked the ring toss. It stressed me out!
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Right?! Why is that? Carnival games are supposed to be fun!!
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Something that needs practice and patience
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The first I can manage, but the second? Not so much.
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yes, i never majored in this )
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But here we are, functioning adults living our lives just fine. 😂
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Yes )
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I think tossing is an art form. I’m sadly deficient in it too. 😂
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I definitely don’t have this gene. Luckily my hubby can handle the tossing portion of kids. 😆
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Haha! Well you’re covered then.
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