A popular lawn games these days is Corn Hole. For those unfamiliar, Corn Hole is a contest where pairs or single players toss little pillows onto a raised board with a hole in it. Whoever tosses more pillows in the holes wins. But what fun is a game where nobody ever gets hurt? Hardly anybody ends up going to the emergency room after a spirited round of Corn Hole. Corn Hole is strictly for wussies. We played Lawn Darts when we were kids.
In this most challenging game that is Lawn Darts, small children threw heavy, 12-inch pointed darts – basically little spears – at a circular ground target at about the same distance as a Corn Hole layout. It wasn’t easy heaving those darts up and across the lawn for 7- and 8-year-olds. You had to lean back and hurl with all your might and hope that the darts went in or near the targets and did not spear a fellow player. But sometimes they did.
From the period of about 1978 to 1986, someone with lots of time on his hands calculated that lawn darts were responsible for an estimated 6,100 injuries seen in emergency rooms alone. Who knows how many kids just stayed home and bled? The vast majority of the victims were under 15. Eventually, the Safety Police demanded that lawn darts be removed from the counters of all toy departments in the United States. So now we have Corn Hole.
Ouch! You hit my foot with a little pillow.
Wussies!
