carnie games in chinatown
Whilst having lunch at Golden King (mmm. tasty vietnamese food) today, we noticed that there was a midway setup right across the street right on the edge of Portsmouth Square right in Chinatown. How odd. Why would there be midway games? They had most of the classics — “shoot out the star”, “balloon dart toss”, “football through the toilet seat”, “basketball shoot” and “ping pong ball in the fishbowl”.. I was sad that they didn’t have “shoot the water gun in the clown’s mouth” game though — that was always my favorite, although now that I think of it.. that game isn’t really found in the traveling midway, just the more permanent ones at like Cedar Point and the like..
Anyway, $5 for a whole basket of ping pong balls seemed like a pretty good deal…
And after that whole ordeal, the group only got ONE ping pong ball in a bowl (good work, James). The prize? 2 goldfish, of course. In a plastic ziploc bag.
Meredith has named them Ping and Pong. I believe the over/under on their lifespan is.. um, 2 weeks right now. We’ll see how they do.
March 2nd, 2007 at 5:25 am
Two weeks? Ha! Last time I one ping pong ball fishies was in college. Me and my then girlfriend named them One, Two and Three, and assumed that their names reflected the relative number of days they’d live. After about 2 months One passed away and Two and Three were quickly and cerimoniously promoted to One and Two. Apparently Two (now One) was quite fond of the former-One because he died a short three days later. As a result, Two (formerly Three) was again promoted to One.
Fast forward about 2 years (yes, I said years) when we were still paying my Dog sitter an extra five dollars a week to feed One, and we decided it was time to give the stupid fish away. My dog sitter’s son took the fish and once again One (formerly Two and previously Three) was renamed to Bubbles. Bubbles lived another three years before heading to the great fishbowl in the sky…
So good luck, my money is definitely on the over!