Ava Tortures Laura with a Gigantic Teddy Bear

Next, a very pregnant woman picked a huge package from the table which was obviously a stuffed animal of some sort. The package turned out to be a gigantic teddy bear which the woman Laura siad would be perfect for her baby to play with in a coiuple of years and for the rest of her life. Everybody, almost everybody ,oohed and aahed at the appropriate cuteness of the story. Lauara was the first person to be pleased with her selection.

Almost everybody was shocked when two picks later, Rose a recent grandmother said "I'll take Teddy, thank you. Rose went over to Laura and took the teddy bear that Laura's child would seemingly never cuddle.

Laura, clearly disappointed, picked again. This time the elephant turned out to be a series of interlocking picture frames for three by five photographs which Ivan a photography teacher commented, "Oh that is so stolen." and took the frames from Laura who immediately took the teddy back from Rose.

The game was heating up.

Lynn nodded, willing now to steal.

And Mr. Baseball still had our junk.

Two picks later, Ava stole the teddy bear from Laura.

According to the rules, Ava owned the bear.

Too bad, Laura.

Next came a random stampede of elephants including but not limited to an attache case, a toaster, a fiber optic bear, a plastic chess set, a glass sculpture, a glow in the dark snowman, box of golf tees, a wallet, a pair of gloves and another ten items whose non-descript existence escapes my recall.

As the game went on, a patterns seemd to emerge, Laura kept opening the best packages and those packages would be stolen from her. This happened at least three times. The later it grew, the more enthusiastically folks waved their newly acquired pieces of junk hoping that whoever's number was up would steal the junk from them and give them another shott at the elephant.

Remember, the junk that each of them had was trying to get rid of was the very junk that somebody else had already successfully gotten rid of by getting rid of it to the very people who were trying to get rid of it agin in the hopes of getting yet another piece of junk that they would be less willing to get rid of..

The usual.

"C'mon check out this pair of gloves. They fit any size. They can be worn by a man, woman or child. Great for cold hands on a night like this."

"This box contains all twenty six letters of the alphabet. Great for coupon clippers and debt collectors."

"Everybody loves to play chess. Chess sharpens the mind. Here's a beautiful little chess set."

"Don't you dare come over here and take my fiber optic bear."

"This whatever it is would make a great whatchamacallit."

Etc.

Stay tuned.