A Man Who Works With a Ho

We love playing Taboo. It’s one of our favorite group games. We had a rousing round of it on our vacation … and there were many hilarious moments (Schindler’s List is a children’s movie? Who knew?? Or Bren trying to get Jean to say the word “Iron” – so he started off with the slam-dunk clue “Robert Downey Jr.” and Jean promptly replied, “Junkie.” Like- WHAT??? We all sat around howling with laughter, lounging around on the big curvy couch, after a long stressful day of swimming and reading and paddle-boat-ing.)

So.

I was trying to get Jean to say “Manure” … WITHOUT using the words “farm” “field” “cow” “farmer” or … you know, you get the idea.

I began with the clue:

“Poop from an animal.”

I SO thought that my clue would make this a done deal. There was no way on earth that anyone could ever say anything other than “manure” in response to my BRILLIANT clue!! I had NAILED it! I was so ready to go on to the next card! Ba-da-BING – ba-da-BOOM!! Slam dunk!

Jean said, “Scat.”

And it was downhill from there. We all started just laughing (not that “scat” isn’t correct – it was my own certainty that “manure” was the ONLY thing she could say … and how it so derailed me into madness) – and everything just started going nuts – and so now I had to turn myself inside out to get her to say “manure”.

My next clue was:

“A man who works with a hoe …” (I was not allowed to use “farmer”, you understand … ) and I had more to say about that “man working with his hoe” – because I needed to paint a more detailed picture – but before I could go on, Jean said:

“A pimp.”

A man who works with “hos” is CLEARLY a pimp!

I never recovered. It was a lost round of Taboo. We are still laughing about it.

“Poop from an animal!”
“Scat.”
“A man who works with a hoe …”
“A pimp.”

Put a “hoe” in Sheila. This round of Taboo is over.