the BLOB..

Speaking of elementary school memories, one of the most vivid memories I have is in gym when we'd play the blob. It was a game where one person was picked and deemed, "The Blob". Everbody else had to run around screaming and trying to not get tagged by The Blob. If you got tagged, you had to link arms and run around trying to collect more people. When the chain of Blobs grew to too many people, you could break off into groups of 2, 4 or however you wanted to. I can imagiene what a person would think if they walked into the gym during this game. You'd see our tiny gym full of kids running around screaming and laughing hysterically. Then in the middle of the gym you'd see a line of 10 kids that stretch all the way across from one wall of the gym to the other, all running trying not to trip one another up, and to gain at least one more resistant person and all the while having our teacher in the corner hunched over in his chair trying not to fall onto the floor from laughing so hard. I still believe to this day that he had the best job ever.