BBQs are hilarious

On this lovely evening my roommate, my friend and I went to a stake BBQ. You may think that sounds pretty normal and in some ways it was. In other ways it was craziness. I will tell you a little something about BYU, there always seems to be RMs scoping for young single ladies and then there also always seems to be weird people that feel the need to get in your space.
      First of all I should mention that there were about a million people there and there was not even close to enough room for everyone in attendance. Us being the anti-social individuals that we are we chose to sit next to some random "adult" couple that introduced themselves as Sister Whatever and Brother Whatever. They were a pretty awkward pair if I do say so myself. Brother Whatever had a nice comb over and some snazzy glasses, whereas Sister Whatever had an old-fashioned pixie cut and a horrific laugh. Needless to say we were having the time of our lives.
    When Brother Whatever left the table to check out the cookies Sister Whatever took it upon herself to tell us how her husband had brought the fruit snacks because he gets them for free at his work. She seemed rather proud of this and continued to discuss how outrageous it was that he had already had to refill the bowl multiple times. All three of us chimed in with the appropriate amount of fake laughter and mustered smiles seeing how we weren't sure why we were supposed to care.
     Once Brother Whatever got back he seemed confused as to why Sister Whatever was talking to us and quickly nabbed her attention. It's pretty sad that we couldn't even keep Sister Whatever's attention. Pretty soon after, Brother Whatever thought they should stand so more people could have room to sit and enjoy their meal. We fairly quickly realized we should probably do the same and came to the conclusion that we were done with this event. However, right when we felt the need to leave two young gentlemen asked if they could sit by us.
    Clearly we had to say yes and don't get me wrong they were pretty cute, but let me tell you something about myself. I have the tendency to give men the cold shoulder and my friend tends to pretty much do the same thing. Therefore, we should probably not talk to men together. Personally looking back we may have been a bit rude. We both just answered each question asked briskly and nonchalantly and didn't bother to ask them any questions back. Why you may ask....I don't know.
     As the pointless conversation continued my friend expressed the desire to play ping-pong. The young man that had his eye on her jumped at the chance. My roommate and I watched as he tried to put the moves on her and joked about how she would be done once he got her number. I will say that my friend may have enjoyed herself playing ping-pong, but she missed out on the greatest conversation of the evening.
      While we were watching her play we noticed that there were piles of board games in front us. One that we lingered on a little longer than the others was: "Settlers of Zarahemla." I had just pointed at the game when some random lady came up to me and asked if I'd ever played. I told her I'd never really heard of it before and instead of just then walking away Sister Crazy continued speaking. She went off on a tangent about a movie called "Passages to Zarahemla." Telling us about how she thought it was going to be bad, but it was actually good and how this little girl travels through some veil to the Nephite time and meets some little boy. Then she goes back to normal time and grows up and once again travels to Nephite time to meet the boy again....and you guessed it they fall in love! During, this long tangent about some movie I will never watch she grabbed my hand and started raving about how hot the guy in the movie was. Her eyes were bulgy and insane as she went on to tell me I should look it up online and if I couldn't find it I could borrow hers. This whole time I was thinking, "Lady I think you're insane there is no way I'm going to find your number and then borrow some dumb movie from you." It was an interesting experience.
     Pretty soon after Sister Crazy's tangent our friend told her new "favorite" ping-pong partner that her friends clearly wanted to leave. Yes we were her excuse. She told us after that he tried to come hang out with us. You got to give the guy props for his efforts. And yes he did get her number. He also texted her about a half hour later to tell her that her ping-pong efforts were excellent. Oh the joys of flirting. In the end this event lived up to expectations: there was flirting, there was food, there were weird people, there was drama, there was heartbreak. What else could you really ask for, right?