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<\/a>The first game I was introduced to was ‘coning.’ I don’t know what you immediately think of when you read or hear the word ‘coning’.\u00a0 I can tell you that when I first heard the term, I said to myself:<\/p>\n“This can’t be good.”<\/p>\n
But it turned out to be neither risque nor illegal. Just a bit odd.<\/p>\n
Going ‘coning’ involves three things – a drive up window, an ice cream cone, and (optional) a phone that takes pictures or movies. The game is quite simple. You go to the drive up window. Order an ice cream cone. And when the attendant hands you the ice cream cone, instead of grabbing it by the cone you grab it by the top … by the ice cream.<\/p>\n
That’s it.<\/p>\n
Fun, huh?<\/p>\n
If you missed it (the fun, that is) that’s ok. So did I. But that’s because you didn’t know where to look. The fun lies not in wasting a good ice cream cone that you only recently paid for. The fun lies in the experience.<\/p>\n
The first experience is deciding to do it.\u00a0 And believe it or not, acting out on something as disturbingly silly as grabbing an ice cream cone by the ice cream requires some gumption. \u00a0 If you don’t believe me, try it. \u00a0 Go ahead. \u00a0 I dare you! (which is how I think this game began, by the way!)<\/p>\n
The second experience is recording and sharing it. \u00a0 In the van full of teenagers that I was driving there was story after story of “oh, I remember doing it back at the McDonald’s in so and so …”.\u00a0 But beyond just telling stories there’s the video phone recording and posting on Facebook.\u00a0 That is the real badge of honor.\u00a0 And it is really the only way anyone can convey any meaning behind an act that on its surface seems so silly.<\/p>\n
Don’t believe me.\u00a0 Check this out<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 (Or search on ‘coning’ on YouTube.)<\/p>\n Which leads me to game number two – planking.<\/p>\n