Water Wars: That's Dedication (or Obsession)

Leah was asked to substitute on another water wars team.

Her only task:  Not get caught by the opposing team.

So she was super careful with her movements and even when they came by the house they couldn't time it to get her.  This lasted for quite some time and the other team was getting frustrated that she was being really clever at avoiding them.

Today however, when she went to the Michigan State Mock Trial Finals in Lansing they actually drove all the way there found her in the courthouse, and got her out.

That's a three-hour round-trip drive just to be able to find and get a player on another team out.

So, sadly, she is out again.   But, you gotta admire the dedication it took to drive all that way just to get someone with a squirt gun.

Begun The Water Wars Have!

High School Water Wars that is.

Expect to see lots of Seniors running around in public with water guns trying to soak each other to survive and win a cash prize and bragging rights.

The Water Wars have rules - while drive-bys are allowed, the driver may not handle a water gun while driving.

Impressively,  the rules prohibit using urine or acid as a substance in your water gun.   That this needs to be a rule indicates that some high school seniors are seriously damn stupid.

Leah being a senior is participating.

Being a chip off the old block she tooled up and went out and bought multiple water pistols - on the practical theory that while two is one, and one is none, twenty should suffice.  

The water pistols have now been hidden everywhere close at hand for her - in her car, school bag, purse, everywhere, place in ziploc bags to prevent leaks.

She also bought a super soaker for planned offensive actions.

Sadly, Leah suffered her first defeat and got eliminated in the present round yesterday - her boyfriend served her up to an enemy team by picking her up and carrying her to the ambush site.  Damn traitor.  

Seriously though, there is no way as a boyfriend I'd ever allow such a thing to befall my girlfriend. Verily, Abby's boyfriend during water wars in their senior year went out of his way to protect her, and she returned the favor by water gunning a competitor that was trying to get him - as one does.

That betrayal probably didn't do much for moving their relationship along, just saying.

So she lost this round, but revenge is being plotted for the next, and given it is Leah, revenge is going to be served ice cold.

Ice cold water, that is.

Water Wars: Abby's First "Kill"

Water Wars are well and truly underway for the senior class this year.

A quality time where disparate teams come together and try to get the other teams out by soaking them with water.  It can happen anywhere, anytime, any place except in school or any school property, nor at their work (going to or leaving work is ok), nor moving vehicles  for safety.  

Oh, and the soaking has to be on video to count, which is then posted online as proof.  Kids are in teams with each team paying an entry fee. Winning (surviving) team at the end of Water Wars gets to keep the money.

Other than that, it's game on. If you get invited into someones house by anyone you can get them there, or outside. Some Seniors have even dressed as Amazon delivery people to get access to their targets.

For Spring Break there was a truce, but it's on now.

Yesterday, a member of an opposing team, Sava, contacted Abby's younger sister Leah to help her get Abby out.

Sava forgot Rule #1 of Family: You Don't Ever Take Sides With Anyone Against The Family.  

Leah did not forget this rule.

Instead, she played double agent role to a T, and let Sava know when Abby was home and she would help by getting her to answer the door and have her ambushed there.

We decided to ambush the ambush-er. So Abby ambushed her.

Abby first was going to hide in the bushes but I noted that:

 1. Her clothing stood out like a sore thumb (Camo is not in fashion among this year's senior class); and

2. She'd have to be there for quite awhile and be uncomfortable as she didn't know exactly.

Instead I suggested and she then did  have the doorwall to her room open with the screen and blinds still in place so she could ambush her ambusher from a place of comfort. Since no one ever looks at that doorwall when they're looking at the front door it was a good setup.

So she did that and she and her boyfriend (who is on an opposing team but they have a boyfriend/girlfriend truce) set about to wait.  Yes, she has a boyfriend now. 

Didn't have to wait too long.

Sava came onto the porch and Abby got her with a water gun on video, thus taking her out of the Water Wars.  Abby's first kill, and Sava is out of Water Wars.

This however got complicated as by posting the video on the Water Wars feed, it clued in Abby's team that her boyfriend who took the video was at her house, so they came to get him.

Abby had to explain she wasn't a traitor to her team but she had a truce with her boyfriend.  

This was somewhat reluctantly accepted by her team.

 Tense moment but since he made it into his car he was safe, she jumped in the car and they headed out to picked dinner they had ordered.

They then got followed for a bit by Abby's team as they hoped they would stop somewhere close where he could get out of the car so he could get caught, as following a car is ok, but no speeding, breaking laws,  etc, is allowed.

Her team came back to the house to try and get him again, and I let them know that they had gone out to dinner and wouldn't be back until late.  This was not exactly accurate, but since he's her boyfriend, he becomes an honorary member of the family (so long as he acts honorably) so see Rule 1 above.

Good for the Seniors to blow off some steam and have fun with Water Wars and its funny to watch them be very aware of their surroundings at all times and see then hatch cunning plans to get others out.