Melon and Gourd 2011

Epic first night of Melon and Gourd this year. So many changes it's hard to remember who all has had it! There have been around 12 or so changes already and it's been on for less than 24 hours! It's going to be an exciting week!!

Eeyore and Pinecone currently have the gourd and the melon.

BREADSTICKS

So Bate and Marshall think its a good idea to run to handy-andy for some breadsticks, using me to drive since I'm immune until wednesday (due to illness). On the way to handy-andy, we pass Ty (with the melon) coming back from Subway. So Bate and Marshall duck, and Ty continues past. Bate and Marshall run inside for some breadsticks as I start to fill up on gas. While Marshall is waiting in line, he sees Ty coming back to handy-andy, ditches his breadsticks on the counter and jumps in the car. Bate, more daring, finishes buying the breadsticks and, just in time, we drive off before Ty can get out of the car.  We drive around a bit, lose Ty, and return to handy-andy for gas and Marshall's breadsticks.

Pulling back into campus, Ty pulls out in front of us from the Nusbaum parking lot, blocks the road and jumps out of the car going for Bate's open window as I turned around in the parking lot. As I circle back around, with Ty following, Bate jumps out of the moving vehicle and outruns Ty to the east doors. Marshall then prances freely to the center doors and I, immune for now, walk in laughing.
    

SIDE DOORS WERE MADE FOR WOMEN ONLY!

KMill gets rid of the Gourd

Well, here's a little story about how I got rid of that God forsaken fruit. I was unsuccessful all day in trying to get rid of the gourd after Ty had gotten me earlier today. As I came out of the DC to go back to wengatz, I see some wack in a car drive up next to Poland and try to tag him and it happens to be Ty with the melon, obviously Ty can't catch Poland with that huge thing so I try to cut off Poland and get him but he makes his best Usain Bolt impression and leaps the corner of the creek/weeds thing by the sidewalk to get to Wengatz and escapes. Now I'm pissed and so I decide to team up with Ty.

Ty and I end up staking out the DC in his car for 20 minutes waiting for Tal or Fank to come walking out. Eventually we see Fank and some random dude pop out. As I creep out of the car and start running to the unknowing 3rd Wester, Brad Peterson (jerk) sees me sprinting at Fank from 100 yds away and yells at him to run. So, Fank turns around and books it over to the West door of Wengatz and is safe. Now I'm really frustrated so I go back to Ty's car and we roll around the Loop in his car.

As we roll back around towards Wengatz we see who? None other than Fank himself walking out of the East doors. We notice he is walking towards the Haak or English so we roll into the Wengatz parking lot and zig zag our way around until we get within 10 yds of him and I bolt out and tag him.

At this point I'm experiencing the utter relief of not having that stupid piece of crap called a gourd in my hangs so I relax for a second...almost a mistake. My bag, with my wallet, phone, and other stuff is sitting in the passenger seat of Ty's car and I'm up to be tagged by Ty. Luckily the side door was still open and I could sneak up to the car and grab the bag swiftly before Ty could lean over and tag me.

I then proceeded to happily walk back to Wengatz. Watch out because Ty is gonna be super pissed since I basically just used his car to get free while he still is stuck with the melon. Sorry buddy :)

I KILL YOU ALL. YALLA YALL BA HABIBE!!!

Witness to Ty's recieving the melon

I had a great view of the passing of the melon between graham and ty, so i'm gonna blog it since no one else has done it yet. Earlier in the day, Ty had thrown his broken phone out of his window onto the sidewalk by the bike rack, shattering in into many pieces. Later on, he decided it was a good idea to go retrieve the pieces even though me and bate told him that was a dumb idea. So he goes down to the sidewalk and at first we thought k mill was going to get him. But then we realized ty gave the gourd to him so he's immune due to the tag back rule. So wolfe and i think someone else went and told graham to go outside and tag ty. Graham went out the front doors of wengatz to scope out ty and see what he was doing. Then he snuck around to the west door and around the corner and tagged ty as me and bate and marshall were distracting ty by telling him to throw the broken pieces up to us on the third floor. I don't think ty is very smart when it comes to melon and gourd week.

Girls are trouble.

After receiving the gourd from Gobes after lunch yesterday (clever tag I will say), I just could not get rid of it no matter how hard I exerted myself. So today my O Group had some sympathy for me and tried to help. My leaders looked up what classroom Bates was in (Reade), and after switching into someone else clothes, my group members grouped at each door, and were going to call me whenever Bates came out. I hid in the trees between Zondervan and Reade. Lo and behold, Kmills appeared from the door nearest me with Miss Poucher, not paying attention to anything but her (his latest ladyfriend, I suppose), well without much debate I abandoned the original plans and took off after him. Like many potential tagees before, he got to the door first. So I retreated back to my original hideout, hoping that I could resume the original Bate attack plan.

Here is where Kmills made no sense. About a minute later, after going back inside, he reappears from the same door! (without the girl this time) He starts walking towards the construction zone. When he was about 25 feet away, somehow he didn't see me, so I took off (again) and after a somewhat curvy chase, got him with his hand about 2 feet from the door handle.

I felt extreme relief, joy, hope, salvation, and hunger.

So here's how Maldo managed to sabotage me and give me the melon this evening:

I was chilling at my friend's house watching the Bears/Packers game. Then two girls on the soccer team (Corri Sehr and Molley Drooger) come walking in all jittery and happy, "saying lets go to Stabucks, lets go do something! Blah blah blah." The settle down a bit and Corri comes up to me and says, "let's talk and go on a short walk, we haven't talked in a while..." So me and my kind and caring self says, "alright sure that's fine." At the time I was wearing sunglasses because I thought I looked good in them, so Corri and I go to the kitchen and grabbed some trash bags to take out to the trash...as we were walking I thought to myself that I should take the glasses off cuz I couldn't see squat, but as I was doing that Maldonado (with his big goofy grin), says with his relieved and devious laugh, "Hey Pfeifs", and tags me. Ask me how bitter I was...BITTER! So bitter!!! I felt betrayed by Corri and would not talk to her or Maldo... I wasn't really that pissed off, but at the same time I was...

So...now onto my story of getting rid of the melon...

After NWS and showers for everyone, I was standing in my room thinking no one was planning on leaving for the night so I was scheming on who I was going to go after in the morning...but low-and-behold, Graham decides to walk out to West door right next to my room... so I'm like, "yes this is my opportunity!" So I look at Ross and he nods his head saying go for it! So i wait to let Graham exit the building so he doesn't think I was following him. But as I walked out I did not see him. I walked to the front to see if he was there, but he wasn't. I then looked over to the sidewalk near the DC to find him putting his shoes on...I saw him look up signifying that he had seen me, but he was in no rush to get his shoes on cuz I was so far away... so I pretend to go left around the creek area to try and sneak behind him, but he proceeds on a jog to go to the Music building...the race was on... I decide to cut across the bridge on a sprint and run around the prayer chapel. By that time he was on the sidewalk that leads to the Bell Tower... I'm hauling butt with this 25lb? melon in my arm getting a bicep workout from all the swinging in my sprint... I continue to cut across the campus lawn and finally begin to catch up to him at about the middle of the library parking lot, and thank goodness for my light feet and for him slowing down a little because I gave everything I had left in me to Sprint and tag him about 40-60yrds out from the building...so I no longer hold the melon! And I no longer feel safe anywhere! But watch out...Graham's on the hunt... love ya buddy and sorry for taking you away from your studies...

I got David Maldan... sorry man I'll need to check your door again for the spelling. Anyway, he may have passed on the gourd by now cause that was three hours ago. See you guys for dinner (i'll be coming in the front door at 5:00 clock.

Tal

Screw Inside out attacks

First I was walking back from Reade and saw no one walking out from our wing, but then karl jumps out of a bush and he growled, which scared the crap out of me, so I hauled back to wengantz, and fricken Tal is camping inside the main doors of wengatz and as I'm 3 steps away from the door he opens it and tags me. Then I heard possibly the highest pitch laugh of relief in my life, as he ran away pointing at me.

So now I have the gourd, five minutes later I see Goben with the biggest grin on his face because he was 20 yards away from wengatz and he was jogging as he saw me thinking that we were both in the clear, and then he asked me if I had seen anyone that was it. And OH did I have a surprise for him. I pulled out the gourd and said yea, so I ran after him but at the same time karl sees him and he got stuck in between both of us and thats when I tagged him.

But karl was only two feet away fro me so I roll the gourd like a bowling ball and ran, and I was running and these chicks with tennis rackets tried to help him by getting in front of me threatening to swing at me with the racks. But I used my mexican hidden talent of running away from..... (white people who are chasing me) and turned on speedy gonzalez mode, so he gave up because he knew he had no chance.

The first night

After an epic adventure of freshman and new recruits running to the Sammy Statues and back...

Tal received the gourd after making a rookie mistake of trying to blend in with people walking the loop.

Karl sneakily almost got clint as Clint tried to earn some more man points, but Karl was unable to rid himself of the melon and still has it.

Current Standings-
Tal-Gourd
Karl-Melon

2010

Melon & Gourd

2 0 1 0

I got Kent.

SIIS(see Karl for the history lesson behind that)

It was around 12:30. I see a kid walk through the wing that I have never seen before. I figure he is a freshman looking for one of our freshmen to do some sort of homework thing. He walks across the whole wing, from the center doors to the west doors. I go back into my room to get a fabric softener sheet, come back into the hallway and he's walking the other way, sees me, but turns away out the doors again. I think maybe he just can't find the room and is slightly embarrassed. I let it go...

I ended up being distracted and leave about 2 minutes later from my room and I can see him coming towards 3rd West through the center doors again. He turns for the stairway quickly. I go back into the room and tell Ross what I've seen, but don't think that anything is quite up with this kid. I go back out and I see his head looking our way from the stairway. I walk out, he's on the staircase between the 3rd and 2nd floor, when we make eye contact, he dashes out of sight. I walk into 2nd center and ask if they'd seen him, they said no but they'd make sure to watch for him, thinking I'm making things up.

I walk back upstairs to report the latest to Ross, and I see a glimpse of someone up on the attic balcony, trying to get into the attic. I run up and ask him if he needed anything,it was the same guy. He had 2 letters in his hand, one said "Chase" on the outside. He said he thought Chase lived on 3rd west but it must have been 2nd east. I reassured him that it was 3rd west and I showed him his room. The kid said it was ok. I asked what the letter was and it was something for Foundations. hmm... I was in Chase's foundations discussion group last year...

I go with the lie and he goes into Chase's room, doesn't find him because he's lying in bed. I take the letter and promise I'll get it to him. When the kid takes off, I find Chase, give it to hm, and he ahs me follow the instructions. I go to the front desk to get the next letter, nothing there...

I see the kid walking in the lobby and ask him about it. He says "Oh, don't worry, just me and some other guys from 1st west were going to bombard him with water balloons. Don't worry about it anymore." I laughed and said, "Oh brother you guys are goofballs."(knowing he's a liar)

He calls down 1st west and says don't worry about it guys, and starts to head down 1st east. I look down 1st west and there was absolutely no one in the hallways. I chase after the guy and ask if he lives in Wengatz. "No I was just helping some friends from home." "So you live in town?" "No, please just forget about it." "Wait, I'm too confused. Do you go here?" "YES, please sir, I'll go now." "You live on Sammy 2." "What NO! No I don't!" "Can I have the other letter?" "Fine, please, just let me go, PLEASE." (I hadn't done anything to him other than ask him to stop and asked him those questions. ) Ross was with me at that point, turning his pants brown. Ross told him that if he didn't live in Wengatz to get out now, and I mumbled someting about ruining our tradition for no reason.

The letter said to leave the gourd in the front lobby and go find the next step in the 1st east bathroom.

Good plan guys...

Chase just got it (gourd) right before he left for his group ride... Ian just walked out the front doors.

Ian-Melon

Chase-Gourd

booya grandma

Gonzo is indeed broken

Well josh, you're probably a bigger dumbass and let the record be set straight that I didn't drop the gourd but it simply broke while I was reaching out to tag you. fml.

The Gourd is broken

So I was walkin to new student orientation when i saw out of the corner of my eye
Paul Bachman on his bike trying to be sneaky like
I gave out a shout and cry and thought to myself "Im going to die"
I started running across the grass trying to get away from his bike
When all of the sudden the gourd fell to the ground
I thought to myself what a dumbass
As the pieces fell all around
I laughed to myself and skipped to my class

So I got the gourd right before dinner time and I was about ready to turn in for the night, when I noticed that Bachman and Rags were no longer in their room. Earlier in the evening Bachman has said something to me about going to Handy Andy...I put two and two together. I ran to my room and put some tennis shoes on and sped on over to Handy Andy. Sure enough, Rags and Bachman were there! I waited on the side of Handy Andy, hidden from their view, for about 20 minutes until they were done getting Polar Pops and whatnot. As soon as they got out of the door I sprinted around the corner and got Rags. Then, Rags and Bachman were in the same car, so Rags got Bachman. And that is how this story ends.

Bachman has the gourd.

I got the gourd after chapel from Peter. I chased Luke and Tyler, but didn't catch either. I finally got Keith at reade. I waited at the door inside and had some person tell me when he was close and I bolted out and got him. Last I knew it was still stitch melon and keith gourd.