Monday, October 12, 2009

Kurbis stealing

Our ward's month long activity is pumpkin stealing. Each apartment starts with a miniature pumpkin and whichever apartment has the most pumpkins at the end of the month gets Cafe Rio. No stealing pumpkins after curfew or when no one is home. Pumpkins must be in plain sight in the kitchen or living room. Once a pumpkin is out the door, it's yours, but can be stolen back once it's in your apartment.
Last week we nonchalantly stole our first pumpkin from the apartment that hosted FHE. I just reached up and grabbed it and was gone. We got two more from girls across from us when we went to borrow cinnamon.
Last night a giant boy named Clark came to deliver our friendship notes after ward prayer. He proceeded to throw the notes then jump for our four pumpkins that were on a very tall display on our entertainment center. He got one but I jumped him and he got totally startled. I saw fear in his eyes. We let him go when we were sure he didn't have any of our pumpkins.
Afterward Rachel, Stefani, and I went across the way to game night, during which Clark and his Rugby Roommate gang busted into the apartment while Genevieve was home alone and ended up getting one pumpkin. Genevieve called us immediately and we ran across the street to get our pumpkin back. Since we knew they'd be expecting retaliation we got our super sweetheart cool Home Teacher to knock on the door and distract them w/ Rugby talk while we hid around the corner.
This was accomplished and we bum rushed into the apartment. Long story short there was a may-lay of craziness and we got TWO pumpkins out of the giant Rugby Apartment. Seriously, these boys are HUGE!! Even though technically they were our pumpkins once they were out of the door they followed us across the street, seriously scary, and camped out on our stoop. I was going to get the 15 people across the way at game night to help us out, but Rachel took the pumpkins up to her friend's, then handed them to Genevieve through our window. The boys left dejected, telling us that it's not fair that we're girls and all that, and that they won't talk to Dusty for the rest of Oktober.
I have some nice bruises from said giant Rugby Players, but boy was it fun.

And then tonight after FHE, before our friend Sarah, who's in our FHE group got back to her apartment we rushed over to her apartment to bum rush whomever was home, but no one answered the door. Upon discovering that the door was open we let ourselves in to wait for Sarah, then planned to rush past her with her pumpkin. We giggled in the kitchen until Amy appeared from the back rooms b/c she'd heard us. We snatched the pumpkin and accidentally and viciously pinned her to her front door. After some cordialness she actually let us take the pumpkin. We're scared for Sarah's retaliation. We're always paranoid and have secret knocks and strategic pumpkin decoys and all that jazz.

What a fun month eh?

2 comments:

Whitney said...

Kurbis not Korbis

Gwennifer said...

Melee, not may-lay.

The story is so much better when you mention our giggling in the kitchen. We sound like six year old Navy Seals.