While on a field trip with my daughter to a marvelous lake here in B.C., her rather large male classmate challenged his young lady friends to a duel of this nature. They all turned him down. I didn't know this kid in any way at all and thought maybe the young girls just were scared of a little pain. So, when he turned to me with hope in his little smirk, and asked me if I'd like to try it, I straightened my back, returned the smirk and said, "let's do this!"
I don't know how you'd imagine this went since I'm no big person and this young man was nearly as tall as myself and easily weighed as much as or a bit more than myself but, I am here to tell you, we had a very fair and equally played game! I held nothing back just because he's 1/3rd of my age. He got as much slap as he delivered and it turned out once he knew that I wasn't going to play with kitten mittens, he returned the effort in his slaps too!
We exchanged slaps for about 4-5 minutes at the glee of his classmates and the open smile of my own daughter who I think was either proud of me or quasi embarrassed. I never asked her.
Either way, that was a lot of fun, my hands were left stinging and pink, as were his. We both called a truce at the end and I enjoyed feeling like a grade 5 classmate for 5 minutes.
Yeah, that was fun!
