I Should Have Gone With Jell-O Wrestling

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.