Narrative: Final Paper

Dart Wars

Have you ever had a dart war? Dart wars are like most gun games: water fights, laser tag, paint ball, or bee-bee guns, except not as painful as some. My friend always started our dart gun fights by saying “I’m going to shoot you in the eye” to Amber. We would grab our guns and the fight would begin. Wars only lasted about 40 minutes every other day. They were usually staff versus kids, of course kids always out number staff three or four to two. Don and Amber would battle it out with Beau, mike, me, and sometimes Monte. We lost about twenty darts between us.

Once we had our guns, we built walls of pillows to hide behind. I’d set mine up around my bed. Beau would put his on the floor in a circle around himself. All together we’d use about twenty pillows. Sometimes we’d even flip furniture, most of the time this got us in trouble. Once all barricades were up, we started to run around the house using anything as cover.

When we started to run around, darts would start to fly. The best part of the wars was Beau jumping and over everything to get away. One of his best jumps was a back flip over his pillows. He landed square on his back, knocking the breathe out of him. We all had our great jumps, but Beau’s was the best.

When Amber ran out of darts, she would go get a squirt gun. Beau would grab his bottles and they would start a water fight while mike, Don, and I would watch. One time Beau chased Amber down the stairs to the down stairs shower, AKA the syphilis shower. He turned on the water and soaked Amber.

At the end of the fight, Amber had to go home early to change. Beau and I would have to go to bed and Don had to get back to work. Our fights were always fun. Sometimes they would be long, others short. Occasionally we were even able to stay up two to three hours past lights out.

The lesson I learned from our dart wars is it’s okay to be yourself, act like a child, and have fun.


Sam