honestly i donāt think thereās anything ghost hunters can do to get evidence that will ever be funnier than Ryan Bergaraās method of going into Aaron Burrās home and showing off a Hamilton playbill he brought.
OP you canāt just leave this in the tags
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dont think i can ever forget the moment ryan whipped out that playbill
because i was eating and i legitimately started choking #for some reason i was just so caught off guard by it that i fucking lost it and my food immediately got caught in my throat #i cant remember if i managed to cleared my airway by hacking the food up or swallowing it #i
just remember sitting there on my couch home alone for real wheezing
and coughing and gasping for air. my eyes teared up so badly. #at one point something like āi cannot let ryan bergara kill meā crossed my mind and that just made it worse #after i got my airway clear and all i was so rattled that I just hit pause and messaged my best friend for a bit #i had to rewind it by like 2-3 minutes too#gave me an intimate insight into what the ghosts go through though #cuz like there i was. just dying with the sound of Ryan and Shane yammering in the background #truly humbling]
Did you have a kid in your neighborhood who always hid so good, nobody could find him? We did. After a while we would give up on him and go off, leaving him to rot wherever he was. Sooner or later he would show up, all mad because we didnāt keep looking for him. And we would get mad back because he wasnāt playing the game the way it was supposed to be played.
Thereās hiding and thereās finding, weād say. And heād say it was hide-and-seek, not hide-and-give-UP, and weād all yell about who made the rules and who cared about who, anyway, and how we wouldnāt play with him anymore if he didnāt get it straight and who needed him anyhow, and things like that. Hide-and-seek-and-yell. No matter what, though, the next time he would hide too good again. Heās probably still hidden somewhere, for all I know.
As I write this, the neighborhood game goes on, and there is a kid under a pile of leaves in the yard just under my window. He has been there a long time now, and everybody else is found and they are about to give up on him over at the base. I considered going out to the base and telling them where he is hiding. And I thought about setting the leaves on fire to drive him out. Finally, I just yelled, āGET FOUND, KID!ā out the window. And scared him so bad he probably wet his pants and started crying and ran home to tell his mother. Itās real hard to know how to be helpful sometimes.
A man I know found out last year he had terminal cancer. He was a doctor. And knew about dying, and he didnāt want to make his family and friends suffer through that with him. So he kept his secret. And died. Everybody said how brave he was to bear his suffering in silence and not tell everybody, and so on and so forth. But privately his family and friends said how angry they were that he didnāt need them, didnāt trust their strength. And it hurt that he didnāt say good-bye.
He hid too well. Getting found would have kept him in the game. Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found. āI donāt want anyone to know.ā āWhat will people think?ā āI donāt want to bother anyone.ā
Better than hide-and-seek, I like the game called Sardines. In Sardines the person who is It goes and hides, and everybody goes looking for him. When you find him, you get in with him and hide there with him. Pretty soon everybody is hiding together, all stacked in a small space like puppies in a pile. And pretty soon somebody giggles and somebody laughs and everybody gets found.
Medieval theologians even described God in hide-and-seek terms, calling him Deus Absconditus. But me, I think old God is a Sardine player. And will be found the same way everybody gets found in Sardines - by the sound of laughter of those heaped together at the end.
āOlly-olly-oxen-free.ā The kids out in the street are hollering the cry that says āCome on in, wherever you are. Itās a new game.ā And so say I. To all those who have hid too good. Get found, kid! Olly-olly-oxen-free.
ā Robert Fulghum, āAll I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergartenā
this is fascinating because it’s so thoroughly pre covid with our own eyes we saw the capacity for powerful collective action as well as the forces which push and move against it.
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