The train game- my dull contribution. ^-^
Yes this isn't as bad as laughing at children injuring themselves, nor as funny, but is a tale of the time the whole class ridiculed my methods and how we got the last laugh.

At school our history teacher came up with what we knew as The Train Game. This was great fun. You formed "companies" with your friends and each company was given a set amount of money and shares. Then in a battle of an auction you bidded for railway links between towns all over the UK. The smart groups paid high for linking lines. The daft or bored groups maybe paid out everything for one of two. Then there was my group. Who bought all the lines nobody wanted aaaaall over the UK and not connecting at any point.

After you'd done this you sold your shares. We bought our own shares. Except for Kate who bought her boyfriend's. Then, using an equation, you calculated how much profit your lines were making and how much your shares were worth.

I was left in charge of the equating. This was not a good idea. When I revealed my results the teacher wandered over and proceeded to laugh heartily at our group, as did then the entire class when he revealed to them that we were so in the red we were actually paying our customers to use our trains.

As he wandered away Claire from the smart group nicked my paper saying I'd done it wrong and the game proceeded until it was time to announce the winners.

The group at the back of the class was the typical ned/chav lot who sat bored and bone idle waiting for the day they could leave school, which they all did. Unfortunately someone in the class had pulled a prank on them and instead of writing their name on the ticket when they bought shares, wrote our group's name. All would have been fine if they weren't so whiney that Katy started to giggle. They were now stuck with our shares, except they weren't ours at all and now they had no shares. The teacher saw this damned laugh of hers and awarded them some of our shares after all, which really ended up worse for them...

Until Claire pointed out we were making millions and our group won every prize available. We had the last laugh at the whole class and I'm still owed a packet of chocolate coins today!
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 1:08, Reply)