The Dollar Bill Club

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SWAT Sleepover, Part 3

Soon we were all awake... except Brick King. Poor guy! You know its always bad to be the last one asleep at a sleepover. "Lets prank him!" Tree suggested maliciously. We all agreed that this was a good idea. Tio suggested we put leftover fake blood all over ourselves and get in his face until he woke up to see the terror. I thought we should carry his bed outside with him still in it and lock the doors. In the end we decided to pour fake blood all over him. We got out the blood and started putting it on his hand trying to supress laughter the whole time. Brick King's hand started twitching, then he moved it, smoothing it over his head and getting blood all over his hair and face. We all scattered back to our beds laughing, except Treasure who was pointing at Brick King in mock-horror and trying not to laugh. The rest of us just stared at Brick King smiling.

"Why are you all staring at me?" he asked in half-asleep confusion while scratching his head with his bloody hand. Then he finally realized that something was on his hand. He looked at it and instantly said, "Ah! I hate you guys! TREASURE!" Treasure was the closest one to him, making him the prime suspect. "I'm gonna kill you Treasure!" Brick king yelled getting out of bed.

"It wasn't him!" Tree cried, getting up and restraining The Brick King from getting killed by Treasure's self-defense. "It was all of us! He just wanted to point at you!"

“I still think it was Treasure!” Brick King said, shaking Tree off his arm and glaring at Treasure. The rest of us just laughed.

“No, it really wasn’t Treasure!” I said through laughter. "You're giving him WAY too much credit!"

“Yes it was.” Treasure said with a smirk on his face. “I planned the whole thing.”

“You did NOT!” Tree countered “You hardly even participated.”

“You guys got blood on my sleeping bag!”

“No we didn’t. You did! All we did was put blood on your hand.” I reminded Brick King.

“I hate you guys…” Brick King grumbled, but we could still see him smiling. “Where are Jay-spoon and Man Cub?”

“They had to leave early to go to some… thing.” Tio said.

“I’m hungry!” Tree whined. He ran over to the wall of windows and looked outside. “Do you think Kwanjaganim will bring us donuts?”

“Probably.” Tio said. “She usually does.”

“Hey Tree!!!” Brick King said suddenly excited.

“What…?”

“We can drink our monsters now!! Sabumnim Man Cub isn’t here anymore!!!”

“Oh please no!” I said.

“No! I want to see Brick King on a Monster!” said Tio. Brick King and Tree ran over to their stash. Tree was experienced in drinking energy drinks, but this was Brick King’s first time. Yeah, you see where this is going? We all just sat in a circle to talk and wait for donuts, watching Brick King and Tree drink their caffeine.

“Did you know that if you drink more than two of these you can be legally considered drunk?” Tree informed us.

“I don’t like it…” Brick King said. “Here Tree, you can have it.” He held his can of monster out to Tree who didn’t take it. Brick King then took another sip of the monster. “Eeew… here Tree.” He again held it out and Tree didn’t take it. He then took another sip, grimaced, held it out, “Here Tree.” Another sip.

“Why are you still drinking it?” I asked.

“I... don’t… KNOW!!” he said throwing his arms in the air, then taking another sip. “Well… now its not that bad…” Eventually he finished two and started getting jittery. “Woah… I feel weird… heh heh…”

Tree put his face in his hand.

“Look what you’ve done!” Treasure said.

“Tr…Tr..ee. Thanks for introducing me to….*huge pause*…. Monsters. Heh heh heh… heh…”

“This is awesome! See if you can walk in a straight line Brick King!” Tio challenged.

“I can walk in a straight line!” Brick King stated (Slurring every word), jumping up, stumbling for a while, then walking in a straight line.

“Now, did you all notice how difficult those first couple steps were?” Tio asked the rest of us. We all nodded laughing.

“Brick King, don’t drink monsters…ever!” I advised.

“It’s not that bad!” Brick King said swaying and bouncing in place with a half dazed half happy look on his face and laughing in the goofy way he has of laughing.

Eventually Kwanjagnim came with the donuts. “FOOOD!!” shouted the group of teenage boys plus me.

“I need you guys out of here by 11.” Kwanjagnim reminded us as she went into the office.

“We will be!” we all pledged. “Thank you ma’am!”

The donuts were gone in about 5 seconds.

“Hey! Isn’t Dancer asleep in the office?” Tim asked. Dancer had slept over, but didn’t want to hang out with our craziness, so she slept in the office. “Lets wake her up!”

“We should sing ‘Bag of Weed’ to her!!” Tree suggested.

“What is that?” Treasure asked.

“You know… ‘Bag of weed, bag of weed, everything’s better with a bag of weed…’”

Treasure shook his head. “But Kwanjagnim is in there!” came Treasure’s voice of reason. That put an end to that plan.

“I know! We could sing and dance to ‘Good Morning’ from Singin in the Rain!” Tio suggested excitedly. Brick King and Tree didn’t know that song, so Tio taught it to them along with some choreography. “Okay, lets go!” The three of them then entered the office singing and dancing, and exited later laughing.

“I don’t think she appreciated it.” Tree deducted.

“Yeah, I still want to sing ‘Bag of Weed’ though!” Brick King cried.

“Why don’t you mix the two songs together, and I’ll film it on my phone?” I suggested.

“YES!!!!” Brick King and Tree both yelled.

The original 3 congregated in the kid’s room with Treasure watching and me filming. They mixed the two together, dancing and singing. Brick King and Tree singing ‘Bag of week’ and Tio singing ‘Good Morning’. At the end of the song Tio said, “So say GOOD MORNING!!” pointing at the other two.

“WEEEEEED!!!” Brick King yelled at Tio.

“Bag of weed!!” Tree said jumping up.

I love my demo team and am glad to have gotten the chance to know them. They make my life so much more exciting than it otherwise would have been! Most of this blog is going to be talking about my team members, because they make a great story.

SWAT Sleepover, Part 2

It is tradition after the SWAT spook alley to have a team sleepover at the studio. Sadly, we have a lot of younger members who are not allowed to stay over, so we ended up with a small group consisting of Me, Man Cub, Jay-spoon, Tree, Treasure, Brick King, and Tio. We all claimed Judo mats as our beds. Unfortunately for Jay-spoon, he was the smallest one there, so he didn’t get a judo mat. We mad a bed for him out of kicking pads. Somehow, Tio got stuck cleaning the window of the kid’s room with Brick King. Of course we had to bother them!

They were on the inside of the cleaning room, so we went to the outside and started annoying. “Hey Tio!” called Tree, tapping on the glass. Tio looked as Tree made a handprint on the outside of his freshly cleaned window.

“Stop it!” he yelled as Jay-spoon started poking the window leaving fingerprints.

Tio and Brick King came back out and re-washed the outside of the window. Tio looked frustrated, but Brick King looked entertained. They both went back inside to finish the inside of the window. We all quickly recongrogated at the window. Treasure pretended to lick it, as I just slowly moved my finger toward it while staring at Tio and Brick King. “Guys! Knock it off!” Tio shouted again.

“Yeah, come on guys.” Man Cub said, “Your not supposed to go like this.” as he put a big handprint on the window.

“MAN CUB!!!” Tio said in shock as the rest of us laughed at the unexpectedness of the situation. Brick King and Tio finished the inside, then came out to re-re-do the outside. As they were cleaning the outside Tree went on the inside. He comically smiled and waved at them. “TREE!!!!” Tio exclaimed in a malicious tone. “So help me, I will KILL you!!”

Tree just smiled and started moving his had toward the window.

“Okay Tree, that’s enough.” Man Cub finally decided with a smile.

After the window was finally clean, Man Cub pronounced, “Okay, we are going to watch Kung Fu Panda(a studio favorite), but first! You need to show me that you fully appreciate this song!” As he said this he pushed play on the studio’s stereo system, which started playing the cheesiest song I have ever heard called, “The Unicorn”. We all just kinda sat there looking confused until Man Cub pushed pause. “You call that appreciation!?” he said with mock anger. “We will not do anything else until you can show proper respect for this song!” We all jumped into action. Treasure was running around with a clown wig, Tree made himself a unicorn horn (and a fu man chu) out of duct tape and was crawling around with it. Tio was breakdancing, Jay-spoon was doing a rendition of the Numa Numa dance, and Brick King was just kinda running around flailing his arms. “That’s more like it!” Man Cub said happily with his arms outstretched.

We set up the projector and started watching Kung Fu Panda. “I can do that” I said about one of the impossible moves in the movie.

“So can I.” Said Tree. “I do that every day.”

“Yeah right.” Brick King laughed. “If you two could reenact this movie completely, I’ll give you both whatever you want.”

Tree and I looked at each other and smiled. “Start saving for an Astin Martin DBS.” I said.

“Make that two!” said Tree.

At one in the morning, some of the boys decided that they were hungry. The studio was right next to a 24 hour Macy’s, so Tree, Brick King, and Tio walked over with our pooled money to get us food. They returned with a few packs of cookies, about 20 giant pixie sticks, reeses, giant jaw breakers, and…. Monster energy drinks. “You are NOT drinking those tonight!” Man Cub said.

“Awww… come on!” Tree and Brick King pleaded.

“No! We actually have to sleep tonight!” This statement was proceeded by a bunch of ‘are you serious’ looks. Treasure fell asleep almost instantly.

“That kid is waaay to rigid for a 13 year old.” Tio said looking down at him.

“Hey Tree! I bet I can eat my giant jaw breaker faster than you!” Brick King challenged.

“You're on!” Tree said.

“CAFFEEEEEEEEIN!” Jay-spoon shouted, getting dangerously close to the monsters.

“NO! You stay away from those!” Man Cub said. Jay-spoon sat next to Tree and I with the monsters in between.

“Hey Bandit! Hey Bandit! Hey Bandit! Hey Bandit! Hey…”

“Shut up Jay-spoon!” I said.

“Hey, look what I can do with my hands!!!” he said laughing the whole time he said it, then clashing his hands together and making them fight. He then collapsed on the floor with maniacal laughter.

“Get him away from the monsters! Just being around them is making him go crazy!!” Tree advised. So we moved him, and he instantly calmed down. “I can’t believe that worked!” said Tree.

We all eventually fell asleep around 3 am. Apparently Tree and Brick King stayed up licking their jawbreakers. Tree said that he fell asleep around four in the morning, dropped his jawbreaker on his face, and woke up startled.

Man Cub had to leave early the next morning, but tried to get a cookie from next to Tree's bed. Tree again woke up startled. “Oh, its you!” he said to Man Cub. “I thought it was Jay-spoon coming to get the monsters!

And the story continues, I don’t know if I should make part 3 or not.

SWAT Sleepover, Part 1

The time had at last come for yet another demo team spook alley of epic proportions! Every year, the SWAT demo team puts on a spook alley around Halloween for all the other students, family, and friends to enjoy. We were determined to make this year’s the best! I arrived at the studio to find that it had been turned into a maze of blue tarps hanging from the ceiling. “BANDIT!!!” Jay-spoon yelled as he jumped out from behind one in his usual overly hyperactive way.

“Hey Jay-spoon!” I laughed. “Where is Man Cub?”

“I’m over here” came an unmistakable Scottish accent from behind some tarps. I went around the corner and found him standing on top of a kick target and hanging a tarp with duct tape. Tio was there as well.

“What can I do to help?” I asked. The two looked at each other.

“You and Tio could block out the windows.” Suggested Man Cub, no longer using his Scottish accent. So Tio and I went over to the windows armed with duct tape and sheets. The studio was mostly made out of windows, making our task more difficult than it sounds, but we didn’t want people looking in and being prepared for what was jumping out at them!

More team members started showing up to help and soon we had a pretty amazing spook alley! Upon first walking in there was a white sheet hanging to the right with a strobe light going behind it and blood splattered all over the sheet. This was where one person would drill behind another person’s head, while the other person thrashed around and screamed. But all the guests would be seeing was the silhouette, giving the appearance of a person getting their head drilled into. After turning the corner there would be assorted horrors hidden behind judo mats, kick targets, and other meticulously placed items. We also had Michael Jackson back from the dead! The next corner was the kid’s room. The kid’s room had a window in it so you could see in from the outside. We filled that room with smoke and put a blacklight inside. We had no idea what to do with it, but it sure was fun to play in! “What are we doing with this?” Man Cub asked.

“We don’t know.” Zombie shrugged as I waved at him through the window, then backed up and disappeared into the fog. “But that looks cool!” Then I went to the window and started mouthing ‘help me’ and slowly sunk into the fog. I heard a bang on the window and reappeared in behind it. Fuzzy was outside with a few other people.

“That looked scary!!” he said. “We should do that!”

“Wait! I have an idea!” said Man Cub. He then came into the smoke filled room with me and told me to do what I had just been doing. I complied, but instead of slowly sinking into the fog, Man Cub grabbed me around the throat and pulled me into the fog. We heard the response immediately. “That was awesome!” “Do it again!!”

“Okay, we are definitely doing that!” I said. We exited the kid’s room.

“That was so awesome!” Brick King said. “You both totally disappeared into the fog!”

“Wait until I get my gorilla suit on!” Man Cub replied.

It was now time for everyone to change into their costumes. Coconut, Jay-spoon, and I all went outside to drench our clothes in blood, while others waited in line at the bathroom to get changed.

I reentered the studio tattered and bloody. Treasure, whom Tree and I had been trying to convince to be a leprechaun all week (but he refused, I can’t figure out why), didn’t have a costume. He went into the bathroom and came back with several rolls of toilet paper. “I am a toilet paper mummy!” he proclaimed. “Come help me into my costume!” So a bunch of us started wrapping Treasure in toilet paper. Tree came out wearing a plaid shirt and jeans.

“Tree, I feel like you should be saying ‘git ‘er done’, or something." I observed.

“GIT ‘ER DONE!” he said with perfection. Apparently he was going to pretend to be fake werewolf while holding the bowl of candy at the end and jump out at older kids and give them one more scare for good measure.

When Treasure was finally done with his last minute masterpiece of a costume, we were ready to begin. People started showing up, and the spook alley was a huge success. Unfortunately, toilet paper mummies shed, leaving Treasure without a costume halfway through, so he finished the spook alley off by running around with a clown wig.

It was the most successful spook alley we had had in a long time. However, we still had to clean it up. We blasted some music and took everything down. “Somebody come sweep up the toilet paper trail!” somebody yelled, earning a glare from Treasure. When we were finished, a few of us went to go see Where the Wild Things Are, while the majority of the team stayed at the studio and played games.

Bambi, Jay-spoon, and Man Cub piled into my car and we drove about a block to the nearest movie theater. When we got back, we realized that we shouldn’t have left a bunch of teenage boys alone with a shocker game.

Tio, Slacker, Tree, and Brick King had filmed themselves shocking various parts of their bodies with the shocker game. “Aren’t we awesome?” Brick King asked in what would have been a superior tone, had he been capable of one.

“No, you’re morons” I said.

They ignored me and continued thinking they were 'manly'. “Let them dream.” Treasure advised.

Here I am!

Well, I have a blog. Yay! Now you all get to hear my random stories about martial arts adventures or techie awesomeness! You will enjoy it. You WILL!! Well, its more for me actually. Now I can keep track of my memories without having to write it down. We'll see if it works!