If you’ve been following along with the countdown, you’ve read about the kinds of antics we got up to in the deck stand. If this is your first visit to the site, you might want to check out some other posts – I suggest DIY Ceiling Fan or Ice Bucket Challenge – to truly get a sense of what the Longstrike deck stand was like.

To reiterate before getting into this story, I am honestly surprised we didn’t get in trouble every night.

One of the things we did that never got us in trouble was throwing food. I have no idea when this first started, but it really wasn’t as bad as you might think. It started out as a quick way to pass water bottles back and forth from the fridge to the register where they were ordered.

It was completely harmless.

The person responsible for getting the water would take it out of the fridge and toss it to the person working at the register. After that, we started an assembly line from the fridge to the window tossing each bottle of water down the line from person to person.

Once we perfected the water assembly line, we started passing other foods through the stand. Water, italian ice, and ice cream sandwiches all started flying across the stand each time they were ordered.

We were always careful when we tossed food to each other and we only tossed the prepackaged items.

It became more of a game when we decided to see how many people we could toss each item to before we handed it out to the customer. The count started from when the order was placed until the customer finished paying. We got more daring over time and started to toss things quicker and while not looking at each other. This went well, until one fateful incident.

It was later in a game and we had already closed the window on one side of the stand. A customer came up to the register and ordered a few things including an Italian ice. This is where things got interesting. The person serving the ice cream and Italian ice reached into the freezer, grabbed an ice, and tossed it over his shoulder. Unfortunately he tossed it a bit too high.

Remember that ceiling fan that we got them to install? Well, it decided to get in on the action and tried to catch the Italian ice.

I remember standing in the corner of the stand watching in shock as the ice hit one blade of the fan, then another, and then ricocheted towards the closed window. It all happened pretty quickly, but don’t worry, no one got hit. We did all start laughing, hardly able to believe what had happened. Someone eventually grabbed the ice off the counter to actually give it to the customer and surprisingly it was still completely intact; the wrapper wasn’t even torn. It made its way safely to the customer and the only people who knew what had happened were standing behind a closed window, attempting to control the hysterical laughter.

After that, we decided that maybe throwing food across the stand wasn’t the best idea. It was fun while it lasted though.

Confessional: Have you ever been involved in a food fight? Have you ever thrown food or a drink at someone?