Ok this was something we done at another website and we had a ball with this. What we did was create a story. You would write a few sentences and then another person picks up from the last sentence and continues the story for a another few sentences, then the next person so on and so forth. I thought it was something we could do just for fun and get our minds off our problems. You can add visuals if you want, too. SO HERE GOES!!!!
One day I was walking down the street with my daughter, Rachel and our dog Sandy The wonder dummy!!! When this strange person came up to me and asked me if I knew where Constantinople was. I said no but I called my friend Linda K, if anyone knew where Constantinople was it would be Linda K, but before I could call her, this strange person started a strange song and dance number singing to Dionne Warwick's song Do You Know the Way to Sante Fe? .....
Now it it someone else turn to continue the story
Then everyone around me was dancing. Then my feet started tapping, I tried to keep them still but then my arms started swinging and my head started shaking and it hurt because I have RA but I couldn't stop. Everyone was moving to the rhythm including the person who want to know where Constantinople was !!!! I wanted to rest but my body would not stop so I danced my way over to .............
....where Sandy the wonder dummy dog was. Even he was dancing. I just couldn't stop dancing, in fact I was starting to do the kind of dancing from Dirty Dancing. Sandy & I danced our way over to a policeman & started to ask him if he knew the way to Constantinople .He said "Yes, but I have to arrest you & the dog for lewd dancing, but down that road & turn left will start you to.......the wonderful purple brick road where everything to eat is CHOCOLATE and to drink is whatever you can imangine. Meme ran for the dove chocolate ice cream bars and went wild eating all the chocolate coating, then she hit all the Godiva truffles yelling MORE!!! MORE!!! I will give you Sandy for more Chocolate, then the strange person who started all of this by asking where is Constantinople did ...another little jig, stole my chocolate and told me that Constantinople was an imaginary land where bees flew and people walked uninhibited. I should fit right in as I was certainly into lewd dancing (they had films, could you believe it?) and smelled horrendously of chocolate.
I fought for the chocolate and screamed Constantinople does exist, it does. It's down the yellow brick road and over the road to grandmother's house.
With that, I shoved the evil lurker out of my way and...
Ran as fast as I could to Sicily where I was getting closer to Constantinople, when I looked behind me and there was that strage man dancing with my dog Sandy. He was.....rather suspicious. He looked a little hideous, something like how I have imagined the ra monster. He was following me - I hid under buildings, climbed the rooftops and bungee jumped across a pond and lo and behold - I felt his breath and eyes behind me. I would have looked but by this time my shoulders and neck had swollen to the point that I looked like the Hunchback of Notre Dame. I thought what a pair are we. I had to think quick as I could feel his breathing getting closer so finally from the fog came an idea.Maybe he's the prince of Constantinople and wonderful treasures and cures would be mine, so I turned and forced myself to kiss the hideous monster - Bam it happen, he wasturning into a handsome Prince with the body of a frog and the odor of a skunk. I was astonished! He said his name was Prince Frogaunk. He told me he would take me to a beautiful country & I would have all the beautiful jewels that I could fit around my frog neck, but all I had to do was drink this pond water & then I would be like him. I asked if he new the way to Constantinople. He told me I would have to drink the pond water first & then he would tell me. I reached in the pond and filled a cup with the stagnated water and when I put the cup up to my mouth....
when I felt this sort of a jolt and there was a flash of light and then...I heard the sound of carribean music and voices talking and laughing. I looked around, I was sitting at the bar of a little cabana syle club. I looked down at the glass I was holding so close to my lips, it wasnt nasty pond water anymore, it was a pina-colada with a lovely pineapple slice on the side of the glass. I took a little sip, and as I turned back to set my glass down I got a glimpse of my reflection in the tiny mirror behind the bar. I couldnt believe my eyes when I saw.....a beautiful face with the body of a frog with jewels around my neck. I passed out & I could hear them saying "Awww, the poor thing died of shock. We can take the legs now. They are the fattest frog legs we have ever seen. But first, we have to get rid of the stench before we can cook the legs". I could hear Prince Frogaunk saying, "NO...NO...NO. my Princess is not dead". He said that he was taking me to Constantinople. It was then that I started to.....to do the mambo, then they got out a pole and yelled IT WAS LIMBO TIME!!!! How low can I go , I went so low that....that I flattened out like a pancake. Then I realized I was a pancake! The next thing I knew, a hungry mob was chasing me with forks and knives. One person even had a jug of maple syrup. I ran as fast as I could. Out into the street and through the city we ran untill we were at the top of a hill. My legs slipped out from under me and as I gained speed rolling faster and faster, the crowd got further and further behind me untill they were gone and ......just then the cops walked into the room as my parents were telling me this bedtime story and they were arrested for child abusewhat appeared to be my friends from the Arthritis Insight message boards! There was Roxy and Meme who were swirling and twirling in the water. And Lovie and Deanna were playing big magical water harps, and Crunchy who was....doing a tap dance on shore as she was singing showtunes. I was amazed at who was here, Linda K, Marisa, and even Linda B, but of all sudden the strange man was there again. He walked up to me and told me my trip was not over. All of a sudden he dropped a drop cloth over my head and when I took it off I was ....
...Meme. And as we walked, Meme said " I have a game that we can play to make the time go by. I'll start a story and then each of you add on to it. I have played it before and it is great fun."
And so we went along, telling stories, and laughing and having a grand time.
And we lived happily ever after!
Well done folks, who wants to start another story????