I Should Have Gone With Jell-O Wrestling
Posted: October 18, 2013 Filed under: Diet- comedy | Tags: Jell-O Wrestling, trivia 2 Comments
Today could be misconstrued to be my family white trash day. What with Carter spending the night in an RV at the State Fair like a Carney and me being challenged to a play off in Jell-O wrestling, but that does not really paint the whole picture.
See Carter is showing in the state fair horse show and was lucky enough to have one barn mother offer to let her stay in their rented RV so that we did not have to get up and drive Carter over to the horse complex at five in the morning each day. As much fun as it sounded to Carter it is really a bigger gift to us parents. Carter has a knee problem so she is not jumping her horse so her father and I don’t even have to spend our whole weekend at the fair. Woo Hoo!
So while Carter is in horse girl heaven over in Raleigh, Russ and I went to Trivia night at the club. We had a team made up of the Prebbles who are in their thirties, the Barnes in their forties, and us, one in our fifties and the other somewhat younger. We thought it was the perfect make-up for trivia, covering a large expanse of time.
Our strategy was good. Our team won two of the four rounds, and lost a third in a tight tiebreak. But when the four rounds were totaled we were in a tie for big winner and had to play a tiebreak round against the strong team of the Everetts, Sprat/Tendlers and Peruns. Both teams correctly guessed the first two questions keeping us deadlocked. That was when the tiebreak of Jell-O wrestling was suggested.
Knowing I had a good forty pounds on any of the other team’s women I challenged Stephanie Perun to the Jell-O and she accepted. I had more than forty pounds on her — this was my chance. The room erupted, but unfortunately Hope Valley had just recently dismantled their Jell-O Wrestling ring so we had to go back to answering trivia questions.
To our great dismay the final question was what year did 80’s hair band Poison release their debut album? Well the other team with ex-mullet wearing team member Roman Perun had the distinct advantage since he could have been mistaken for a Poison member. So down our team went in the final moment. I knew I should have demanded the club to start boiling water and stirring up the lime Jell-O.
Less Dana, More Good 
With Rob Everett involved there is no telling where this could have gone!
When I read this, all I could think of is WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE GREAT COUNTRY CLUB LIFE I REMEMBER? I think of myself as of the madmen era.And I am certain that nothing like this weird trivia stuff ever happened at any country club in my era. Trivia was played rarely in those days in homes which were either so dry they would never darken the door of a wicked club or they were too poor to consider membership in a place like Hope Valley.
When I compare life in clubs in my era to life today I really know that club life has gone down hill.Compare the hilarity of dinners at the riding club with Stuart and Dick Beatty and the hell we raised to playing trivia! We would have so totally fried our brains and lost so many brain cells that none of us could have attempted to play trivia.It is amazing how things have changed! I genuinely wonder if given a choice,whether all your friends would \actually prefer club life this way or would they kill to go back to my eara if given a choice. Maybe you should suggest that Hope Valley have a madmen night with martinis,fats domino, and the platters and serve steamed lobsters To make it fit today’s laws you could rent busses to take people to the club and bring them home and serve cocktails on the bus to the club so the trip is fun. Get busses that can play 50’s tapes to create a true party on the bus. Send this to your friends and ask if they would love a Sat. night at Hope valley like it used to be. If they refuse, I give up! If they refuse have them write me an e-mail telling me why they think today’s club life is so superior.