(S11) - PT 1 - Training Camp High jinx

[mabb]

For this year’s training camp, the rookies decided to give the senior guys on the team a harmless prank every few days, but in a random order so the vets couldn’t expect who or what would be next. One day was particularly funny, as the theme was “the dessert you most embody”. Xandra particularly looks up to veteran linebacker Ben Horne, one of the defensive leaders on the team, and yet she thought he needed to lighten up a little. So, when assigned him for the nametag assignment, she chose “Funfetti cupcake”. Because really, who doesn’t love a great funfetti cupcake - it literally is named for fun. Anyway, so Ben walked into the locker room to find all his gear replaced by tie-dyed gear - pad covers, his pinny, socks, some clingy tie-dye stickers on his helmet. Literally everything was funfetti-like. He just rolled his eyes and pretended like nothing happened, which was kind of a bummer, but everyone knew to just wait and see what would happen. The icing on the cupcake, if you will, came at the end of practice, when everyone was wrapping up for the day and heading back to the locker rooms. A little tie-dyed VW beetle pulled up outside the field and a guy gets out with a bright pink box. He hesitantly came over to ask one of the staff members for a “Ben Horne”, as he had a special delivery, until he saw the large tie-dyed player walking toward him. Ben took the box and opened it, to be greeted with a dozen funfetti cupcakes with caricatures of his defensive team decorating each cupcake. He burst out laughing and couldn’t stop for 5 minutes.