We had a “carnival” at our school today. My friend {{linkmo http://sourskittles.pitas.com/ Sam|Oh, bother!}} and I were to run the rubber ducky pond. You know, it’s that sort of game where there are a bunch of ducks in the pond, and people pay to pick one and see what the prize is… depending on the mark, they will get a different prize. It wasn’t too bad, but some things didn’t go too well….
Anyway. The first thing goes wrong when I get there, and the girl’s who already there asked me, “Are you running this stand?” “Yes.” “You guys are really late, I had to sub in for you.” “We were told that coming to help set up was optional.” “Well, I don’t know, you’d better go talk to her.” Erk. So then I did, and she got mad at me, at which point I reminded her that she had told us that she had stressed that it was optional. So then she walked me over to the stand, apologized to me, and talked to the girl. Thus did our guarding of the stand begin. One of our other {{linkmo http://amora_song.pitas.com/ friends|Amora Song}} came to help us, and she hadn’t even signed up. It wasn’t long before flocks of people came and wanted to play. One of the early girls was very lucky and got the grand prize duck, the “10.” She got ten tickets plus she got to keep the duck. 😀 Things remained okay, some people soon starting cheating, but things quieted down… I was kept pretty busy (I was running the actual duck pond, my friends were explaining and collecting tickets.) Anyway. All through this, people were coming and filling up their water bottles in our “pond (actually a kiddie pool.) I was wondering why this was happening (since we were so busy it was impossible to circulate around the carnival) but then I remembered there was a water fight going on. The first splash wasn’t so bad. This girl was flicking the water, and I only got a little wet. The second time was worse, I think someone actually THREW something into the pool. Since I was standing right next to it, I got wet. This was not fun. I like water, but not when I’m not prepared for it! >:O!! The vice-principal came around a few times, and told people to stop filling up their water bottles. Didn’t deter them. They kept coming. Eventually I just got fed up, because they were disturbing the people who actually wanted to PLAY. So I yelled at them to stop filling up their water bottles. Since I’m a paltry 5’2” or so, no one listened to me. At this point I started holding a hockey stick and poking some people with it. I threatened to call the vice principal, because I didn’t want to get wet. (Is that so wrong?) Of course, all I got was “Do you want to get me in trouble?” Well, how about “Do you want to get me wet?” Grr. Inconsiderate people who only think about themselves. There were water balloons for sale, you know. The carnival IS a school fundraiser. ANYWAY. People started FIGHTS right where the pond was. I had a rather heated argument with one guy, and eventuaslly threatened to hit him with the hockey stick (I’m a very violent girl.) Then it all became too much, and I broke down. I was losing my voice at this point because I had been yelling and talking for so long. EEEEEERRRRRK. Yes, that was bad. but I also had a lot of fun! :D!!! I kept telling people that they could figure out which ducks were the prizes but looking at the bottom of the pool for the reflections. Some of them believed me. Oh, and at the end my friends and I all got rubber ducks! That was good, we named our ducks Merc, Aaron, and Friesan. 😀 After our science teacher, because he has no neck and our ducks also have no necks.