Added: 09/20/2005 |
Destiny Leads To A Special Kiss. Who's got the game bottle?The toughest part about the 'spin the bottle' was making sure the darn thing landed on the right person. Fortunately I don't recall any instances when the game bottle landed on my best friend Danny and having to pucker up with him sitting across from me. I do recall that within my small circle of friends there were always at least 4 boys and 4 girls and everyone was excited about the concept of the bottle games as an opportunity to swap spit with a girl.
I never quite figured out if there was a trick to it all. I was just happy for an opportunity to stick my tongue inside a girl's mouth. It never mattered to me if there was a method to getting the game bottle to land on a specific girl. I think my best buddy Danny was able to pull this off with relative ease so he always kissed Darla and not Shelly. Even now, 30 years after the fact, I wonder if there was any inherit skill involved in getting the game bottle to point where you wanted it to.
As the bottle games go, I'd like to think that we've all had the opportunity to play 'spin the bottle'. For a 10 or 11 year old youth, the entertainment value alone of 'spin the bottle' is worth more than say a limited edition comic book or an autographed football. Having said that I'm though sure the mere thought of Tom Brady's autograph on a pigskin is enough to make their pants a little tighter.
In case you've forgotten, it goes like this: with all your friends seated in a circle, and with the game bottle lying in the center, each boy or girl takes their turn at bat. Each spins the bottle, and where lands the game bottle so does the requisite kiss. 'Spin the bottle' is a part game where players get to know each other by sitting in a circle. The game starts by one player spinning a bottle. Whomever the bottle points to, the spinner must kiss. The kissee is now the next spinner.
The game bottle doesn't lie. It puts you on the spot and believe me, there are few instances as exciting and squeamish as that moment of truth when the spinning bottle stops and points to the little girl in pigtails off to your side. We've all been there: you gulp and take a big breath and your lips converge with hers. And hopefully you find a curious tongue waiting for you in the black expanse of her mouth, instead of an endless abyss of emptiness. I recall being on the receiving end of both and finding a tongue waiting for me on the other end was infinitely more stimulating.
'Spin the bottle' isn't the only party game out there. Twister was another big one. Tag and Darts always made for good entertainment as well. But once you drink from the cup of youth, any other game not involving a bottle just didn't add up. In fact I think that among my friends we stopped waiting for a party to present the window of opportunity to play 'spin the bottle'. Suddenly just getting together to play 'spin the bottle' was reasonable enough. The game evolved into a combination with another game we called Pass or Fail and Truth or Dare. In that variation, the spinner gets to ask the person whom the bottle points to an intimate, personal or other question, which must be answered truthfully. If the answerer does not wish to answer the question, then they must agree to perform a dare, which might include kissing a person of the spinner's choice.
Funny how the more things change the more they remain the same. My 12 year old daughter recently went to a party and guess what she told me her and her friends played? I'll give you a hint: it wasn't Hide and Seek.
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