Skirmish -- Sunday 21st August 2011

by Miguel Garrido

OOOOOOOOUUUUUUCCCCCCCHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

What a day! I don’t know if I was sorer from all the welts & bruises or just from the general running around all day, commando rolling, and power sliding. Either way, I hurt for over a week afterwards. Now before you say “I’m glad I missed out then…” you’ll have to hear the backstory first.

After our heroic day at the Brisbane Gun Club shooting clay targets I made the outrageous offer that if a certain amount of people booked on for Paintball, I would wear a high-vis vest over my camouflaged overalls. So I did. I stuck out like a sore thumb on the day and paid the price for it. When the fairy wings and tutu came into the deal I do not remember, but on the day there were too many people (holding me down) to say no. So there I was running around in a yellow vest with a pink and purple tutu and pink fairy wings.

You can imagine that everyone punished me accordingly. As for the rest of the group (those that actually were camouflaged), they had a blast. After every game people were running around trying to work out just who it was that pinned them up against barricades or between the trees and how many times they shot Mig in the back.

It was a lot of fun and once again we are excited for the next social club event, Go-Kart Racing at Kingston Park Raceway!