The Devil and the Idle hands of young men

Working at the tip over you summer holidays at uni isn't everyones cup of tea. The job entails sweeping and tiding up and making sure that some old duffer doesn't kick off when told he cant put his asbestos in with the glass recycling. Like the trenches this sort of work leads to long periods of boredom, followed by short periods of headless chicken like activity.

In a lull in stuff to do myself and one of the other lads came up with a new game to pass the time:

MAGNET CHICKEN. The rules are simple, climb inside a empty skip and take it in turn to throw magnets at one another.

you average tip is lousy with discarded stereos, a swift toecap to the speakers yields a collection of magnets. As your empty skip is basically a 5m long steel corridor a thrown magnet will vear off and stick to the wall with a wonderful 'SPANG' noise. The aim of the game is to see how hard you dare to throw a magnet at your friend.

One fine yet dull day me and a workmate decided to take up potions and begin a game. I tossed the first magnet, pitifully it slammed into the left wall whole feet away from my opponent. He retaliated by overarm bowling a 3lb monster from a car subwoofer at me at lightening speed. 'WANN-NNG' the whole skip reverberated as this thing slammed into the wall next to my head after missing my eye by mm.

"you cunt, have some of..THIS" I replied wrenching the magnet from the skip and hurling it back at him. I throw underarm and am quite cack handed so something different this time happened. Once the magnet had cleared the top of the skip, It shot over the side as if guided by a lazer and landed out of sight with an almighty reverberating KER-SPANG.

Leaping out of the skip we were confronted by a horrifying sight. A middle aged man, pale faced and shaking with terror was frozen to the spot halfway through the process of removing an oven from his boot. An oven with a crater sized dent centered around a speaker magnet, in it.

Quick thinkingly I came up with "errm, sorry its our job to look for the magnets cause sometimes they repel one another and it acn get quite errm dangerous" The man mumbled a hasty "oh I see" and hurried off. After that the game of magnet chicken was no more.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Sun 22 Apr 2012, 20:11, 5 replies)

It's surprising
how often a game of chicken ends badly.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Mon 23 Apr 2012, 4:17, closed)

Whats an 'Up potion?'

( jakedamusss I understand, and dont care., Mon 23 Apr 2012, 7:21, closed)

+1 level.

( gone, Mon 23 Apr 2012, 9:40, closed)

Gandalf gives them out, I believe.

( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 23 Apr 2012, 10:06, closed)

I call shennanigans
Magnets don't zoom off toward distant metal objects, because the attraction force drops off so rapidly (inverse cube, if anyone cares). So they have to be pretty near to feel any significant force.

I think you've been watching too many cartoons...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 23 Apr 2012, 11:53, closed)