WYR

Question:

Would you rather have an ear where your nose should be or a nose where your ear should be?

I guess if you had an ear where your nose should be then you wouldn’t have a nose at all. But if you had a nose where your ear should be then you’d still have another ear…except you’d have a space on your face without a nose. That’s a tough one.

These are the types of things I ponder when I’m around my friend Amy J. She is the queen of the WYR (Would You Rather) game and we played it on her birthday a week ago.

It’s an awesome game but it carries with it two fatal flaws:

1. The group usually ends up sitting in silence once they’ve run out of WYRs.
2. Somebody always spoils it with responses like, “Well I would just get plastic surgery and move my nose back to my face.” FRANK!

But if you play with Amy, you don’t have to worry about either of those problems because…

1. She NEVER runs out of WYRs. She’s got bunches of ‘em stored up and when she runs out, she comes up with more.

2. After she poses the WYR she immediately screams at the players, “And you can’t change anything. You can’t do anything about it! You have to choose whether you want your butt in the front or boobs in the back! You have to!”

(Her specialty is moving body parts around.)

Here are a few classics:

Would you rather have one outfit that fits you perfectly or a closet full of clothes that are two sizes too small?

Okay, that’s the only clean one of hers that I can think of. A lot of them involve the toilet.

But I found this web site with some good ones:

Would you rather go on a date with bad breath or body odor? (Amy is screaming right now, “And you can’t use breath mints! You can’t use deodorant!!”)

Would you rather have three eyes or webbed feet?

Would you rather always have to say what’s on your mind or never be able to speak again? (Message from Amy: “And you can’t carry around a little chalk board and write everything down!!”)

Would you rather be stranded on an island alone or with someone you hate?

Okay, so that’s all the clean ones they had too. For some reason this game always tends to take a nasty, stinky turn.

But luckily, I chose the ear over the nose so I can’t smell a thing.