Anyone else play this bizarre children’s party game?

Posted by Northern_Lights_2@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 187 comments

When I was around ten or eleven years old my sisters and I attended a classmates birthday party. For one of the games the mother brought out two of the father’s sweatsuits, and we had to nominate two other children to wear them.

They put them on over their clothes and then the suits were stuffed with balloons so they ended up looking like the Michelin man. My poor sister was one of the nominees. In our defense we didn’t know what we were nominating people for. The birthday girls mother then handed the rest of us sewing stick pins and told the Michelin sweatsuit wearers they had a ten second head start to start running before the rest of us chased them down with our pins. It was the most bizarre party game I’ve ever seen. Did anyone else play this or was this family just crazy?

We’re all xennials here so, at least where I grew up, parents just dropped us off and left. Maybe this is one of the reasons parents attend birthday parties now…