My eight-year-old Grand ripped the wrapping paper off his birthday gift and said, “Oh, great! A Would You Rather? book!” He immediately opened his new book and said, “Who wants to play?”
Was the book a game? According to the book’s cover, it’s a game book of 300 questions for kids, ages 6-12. Son read a question aloud, “Would you rather lick the bathroom floor or be toilet paper?”
Birthday Boy said, “No!” His older brother yelled “Yuck! Neither!” His younger sister held her nose, grimaced, and shook her head. Son, Daughter 2 (aka daughter-in-law), Husband and I laughed and the kids insisted we answer. Neither was our answer.
Author Simon D. May would not have accepted our answers. He stated two rules in his book. 1. You have to choose between the two possible answers and be creative and silly and try to make other people laugh. 2. Have fun with all those around you while spending time together.
While Husband and I visited our Grands and their parents, who live an airplane ride away, would you rather questions did make all of us laugh and we had some funny and some serious conversations.
Would you rather eat two live worms or have worms crawling over your body for three hours? We talked off and on about this question for two days. Do you have to chew the worms? Could you chop them into small pieces and put chocolate syrup over them? How about putting them in a smoothie with ice cream and strawberries? If they’re little worms, you could swallow them quickly and then drink something fast. What would happen to worms inside your body?
Could you sit in a bathtub filled with water while the worms crawled on you? It might feel relaxing. Or eerie! It’d make your skin crawl! Three hours, 180 minutes, is a long time – longer than a movie! Finally, most of us agreed that eating two worms could be done quickly and three hours was too long.
Would you rather turn into a bird when you cry or turn into an owl when you laugh? My Grands chirped and squealed and hooted to imitate birds. Could it be any bird? Would you be a human when you weren’t crying or laughing? What if you just barely laughed?
The choices of some questions were completely unrelated. Would you rather give up Netflix or eat the same breakfast for the rest of your life? Many were about eating, especially eating worms and insects. Would you rather eat a worm or a bowl full of cockroaches? And some were too gross to talk about – like the bathroom floor and toilet paper question.
Mr. May states on the inside cover of the book that the questions are silly, hilarious, outrageous, daydreaming, and challenging. The cover could say for all ages, for anyone who likes to laugh and be silly and have fun with others.
Would You Rather? is on my birthday wish list.
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