We recently attended my cousin’s wedding and had a wonderful time. A really entertaining part of the reception was a game called the “Not So Newlywed Game”. They asked for a couple who had been married from five to fifteen years and another couple who have been married beyond fifteen years. George and I have been married for fifteen years so we looked at each other, nodded and put up our hands. We were selected to play and NOTHING reminds you of how LITTLE you know, except for when you are in front of 150+ people on “stage”, trying to answer questions about your partner.
Along with the other couple and the bride and groom, we were all sitting back to back from our partner across the front of the reception hall, a theatre, and were handed chalkboards and chalk to write our answers on. My first reaction, “Phhhshhaawww…chalk for the teacher. I got this thing…” Reality, however, was somewhat different….
The first question, started off quite easily, although I have to admit, I did guess. It was, after all, nearly twenty-three years ago. The mind IS the first to go. (Having said that, some questions may be out of order…)
Question #1:
Where was your first kiss?
His answer: My car
My answer: His truck
My thoughts: I think he did have a truck! Who cares?! We got a point!
I “stage” whisper to him: “YOU HAD A TRUCK! FOCUS!” (I may have said something that rhymes with “truck”, but I am not one hundred percent sure…)
Question #2:
What is the colour of his toothbrush?
My answer: BLUE! (I open the drawer and see it EVERY DAY!)
His answer: Green and white.
My thought: Crap.
My explanation: “He just got a new one at the dentist!”
His explanation: “I am still using the old one!”
I ask the judge: “What if they don’t brush their teeth?!”
Second thought: Didn’t I just use the green one to clean the bathroom? Ooops.
Question #3:
What is your Wedding date?
My thought: OMG, so EASSSSYYYYY. (*Yawn*)
His answer: February 19, 1994.
My answer: Feb. 19/04.
My cousin, the judge, stares at my chalkboard for an extended time…blinks…stares…and exclaims, “WRONG!”
I look back at the chalkboard. I wrote ’04. I was married in 1994!
I say, trying to explain: “It felt like yesterday…?”
My mother’s question to me: “Have you had too much to drink?”
Question #4:
What percentage of housework does he do?
My reaction: “Can you write negative numbers?”
His answer: 50%
My answer: Nothing. I was too busy laughing to answer.
(In all honesty, he does do as much as he can, including most meals.)
Question #5:
Who’s the better cook?
My first thought: THIS IS EASY. Hands down I KNOW we have this ONE. (We are in the restaurant business, for heaven’s sakes! He grew up in a kitchen!)
My answer: George
His answer: Me
My thought: Thankfully I never messed that one up…
Question #6:
What annoys her the most about you?
I wrote this one down so fast!
His answer: Everything
My answer: Snapping his gum
His response: “Oh yeah, THAT too.”
My response: “Not EVVVVERYYYYTHING…”
Question #7:
What celebrity would she marry?
I whisper: “You KNOW this one. Think. Who do I love?”
My thought: Hmmm. Should I put Buble? He might think Buble… But, I do love Rod Stewart more…
His answer: Michael Buble
My answer: Rod Stewart
My thought: !@#$
My explanation: “Buble’s too young. Rod fits the criteria – older, richer…”
He called our daughter and asked, “What celebrity would mommy marry?”
Her reply: “Rod Steward. DUH.”
Two right! WOOOHOOO! …Needless to say, we LOST.
Apparently we are not so newlywed and NOT SO BRIGHT either.
2 comments:
this is a pretty good (appropriate for all ages=D) game...I might tell my wedding game planners to steal it!
Afterall, the last time I eavesdropped on them, their game involved licking...feet...>_<
Ugh to the licking feet...GROSS!
Another good one was the groom was blindfolded and he had to guess, from a kiss on the cheek, who his wife was! One of his groomsmen kissed him first (way too funny!) and he actually picked another woman! HAHA! It was cute!
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