Table Topics: Your Own Short Stories

[Anarchemitis]

This is something I got from the motivational (free) learning Talkers club "Positively Speaking Toastmasters". It's part of ad-lib learning and speech composition. What happens is a person is selected to come to the front and speak for about a minute about a random topic, and then his or her speech, story or whatever is judged. It's quite effective for the lesson it's supposed to teach.

SO! In this RP, A topic by me will be presented, and the following poster must type a short story, or explain an experience or something like that that pertains to the subject. (Judging is not required, unless you are so inclined.) Thus:

• The next Poster's table topic is potatoes. Go!

  Well, last year, me and my family went camping with another family (let's call them the Peters) up in the Okanagan, the lake country of BC. Beautiful little camping site. Anyways, after supper one day, we we sort of bored, so the Peters eldest son showed us a 'Potato Cannon' they made. It's a section of PVC pipe with a cap on the end with a BBQ ignition mounted on it. You spray hairspray into the pipe, stuff a potato down the pipe, hit the ignittion and that lights up the hairspray, propelling the potato with glass-shattering force. We spent like 2 hours just shooting spuds out into the lake. Fun experience.
  
  The next poster's table topic is

and that's how it goes.
The next poster's table topic is a flat tire. Go!

 

[000Ronald]

I remember once I was out with a friend when one of the tires blew; this wouldn't have been a problem, except the tire wouldn't come off, even when I kicked it. Apparently the tire was rusted onto the frame, and no one could get it off.

So we were stuck on the freeway for something like an hour before this massive semi comes out, driven by an equally huge man. He comes out, looks at the tire, and says he has just the thing; he pulls a 4x4 out and slams it into the tire three times, and it falls off. The last blow was hard enough to shake the whole car. Guy was really nice too; he put the spare on for us and put the flat back up. He said he'd been in the same situation when he was our age, and he didn't mind.

The whole expirience restored my faith in humanity.

The next poster's topic is...Dinusars!