Let's Play a Game: Hide The Melon
This is a trampoline game that requires one t-shirt
MY TWO BROTHERS AND I INVENTED the game of Hide The Melon on a summer day while jumping on the trampoline. It was hot so we started taking our shirts off and tossing them away to the lawn. One of the t-shirts blew back onto the tramp.
“What? You can’t even throw your shirt onto the grass from the trampoline?”
“Jesus, all you’ve got to do is drop it.”
Those were the approximate words that two of the brothers directed at the third, and I don’t even remember who said what or whose t-shirt it was, but the t-shirt in the middle of the trampoline was in the way. One of us ordered: “Pick it up!” But another said, “Hang on. I got it,” and then he jumped, landed sideways on the tramp, with his head bouncing off the t-shirt, which propelled it into the air, floating in freefall near his head.
When he stood upright again after the sideways-drop-bounce, the t-shirt fell back to the trampoline.
“What are you doing?” two of us asked the third.
“I was trying to bounce the t-shirt onto my head without grabbing it.”
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And so a game was born. It’s a stupid game. How stupid? You’ve already heard 100% of the rules.
Hide The Melon
Items Needed
:: A trampoline
:: A t-shirtIt’s a Trampoline Game.
The Rules
:: Players: 1 to 6.
:: Toss a t-shirt onto the middle of the trampoline.
:: All players stand on the edge of the trampoline and take turns jumping in order. No simultaneous bounces. (This game is called HIDE The Melon, not SMASH The Melon.)
:: Try to bounce your body off the trampoline so that when you stand again, the t-shirt lands on the top of your head, covering part of your face, thus, "hiding the melon."
:: You may not touch the t-shirt with your arms, hands, legs, or feet.
:: Score: You get 1 point every time the t-shirt lands on your head.Scoring is not all that important because it’s extremely difficult to do. In all the years of playing Hide The Melon, I think we’ve only hid the melon two or three times.
So if you’ve got a trampoline and a t-shirt, have at it. And good luck. Remember: One at a time. Oh, and trampolines are dangerous.
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