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<\/p>\nThey used to have a waiver you’d sign where the first point declared “I’m an idiot”.<\/p>\n
Now they don’t need you to sign a waiver.<\/p>\n
You still need to eat 12 ridiculously hot wings in 10 minutes. No napkins.\u00a0 No drinks. Nothing else to eat.\u00a0 For 5 minutes before the challenge and 5 minutes after you finish your wings.\u00a0 You need to lick your fingers clean. You need to eat the chicken off the bone instead of pulling it off and eating a pile of chicken.<\/p>\n
You can win a t-shirt.\u00a0 And a photo up on the wall.<\/p>\n
A few guys at work were down for the challenge.<\/p>\n
I bought 4 orders.\u00a0 One for myself, one for Sean, one for Joe and one for Alex.<\/p>\n
The place even spends a dollar to play “Eye of the Tiger” on the jukebox when the clock starts.\u00a0 I tapped out within 10 seconds.\u00a0 I had actually tasted some of the sauce (there was lots of sauce in the thing…more sauce than chicken I think) as it rubbed on my hand while getting my wings.\u00a0 It didn’t seem that bad.\u00a0 Then I spent 45 seconds listening to the review of the rules and my throat started to burn.<\/p>\n
I’m too old for this stuff.\u00a0 Didn’t seem like my body was up for a full wing of sauce.\u00a0 And I have kettlebell class on Wednesday nights.<\/p>\n
However, Sean, Joe and Alex are not old and feeble like me. They dug in.\u00a0 Initially it’s easy.\u00a0 After I tapped out, Chuck had a wing and said that Firehouse’s wings are hotter.\u00a0 So EJ took one too.\u00a0 I disagreed with them, not that Firehouse ain’t hot…but that they hadn’t let the Cluck U wings settle.\u00a0 Chuck agrees now.\u00a0 He had 2 of the 911 wings…and said that they must be hotter than the Firehouse ones, cause he could eat more than 2 Firehouse wings.<\/p>\n
EJ made some strange noises and devoured the sour cream off my nachos.<\/p>\n
Alex made it through 4 or 5.\u00a0 Joe I think to 6.\u00a0 Sean at 7 said he would vomit if he ate more.\u00a0 We convinced him it wasn’t worth it.\u00a0 Stop eating.\u00a0 Kelly bought ice cream bars that were appreciated all around.\u00a0 Several 32 ounce sodas were consumed.\u00a0 People even brushed their teeth.<\/p>\n
Still, it looked like we’d have a couple of WFH messages later on in the day.<\/p>\n
In fact, I was in a meeting when the status of Sean was brought up.\u00a0 People were saying I was responsible for his condition.\u00a0 (He was not very available but if you really wanted to find him, all you had to do was follow the groaning.)\u00a0 I tried to play innocent – I didn’t force any chicken wings into anyone’s mouth.\u00a0 I didn’t bring up the 911 challenge even.\u00a0 I felt I was on pretty good ground. But their counterpoint was pretty persuasive…<\/p>\n
If you weren’t around, no one would have eaten any of the wings.\u00a0 Sure, we would have talked about it at lunch one day, but then we would have walked upstairs, gone back to work and forgot about it.\u00a0 You made it happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I might be an enabler.\u00a0 No one complains when it’s paintball or go-kart racing or Vegas offsites or hack days.\u00a0 But when someone gets ravaged by 7 chicken wings to the extent where I’m told to get on webmd and search for spicy food poisoning to see if they have suggestions for what we can do, all of a sudden I’m the devil?\u00a0 Fair enough.\u00a0 They were pretty horrible.<\/p>\n
At the same time, it also seemed like a waste to throw them away.<\/p>\n
I wanted to take Kari up on her theory that people at work will eat any free food.\u00a0 She had seen a cake with a sign saying that “it wasn’t very good” next to it so I thought maybe these wings could find a home in our office common area.\u00a0 Now, a cake that is just “good” and not “very good” is still definitely many, many, many levels more appealing than a lump of hot sauce with bones in it and a sign that says “hot wings” (people did give me credit for underlining “hot” 3 times) but I thought maybe someone would be daring enough.<\/p>\n
First time I went back to check, no one had taken the bait.<\/p>\n
Second time I went back, they were in the trash.<\/p>\n
Ben has an intro video<\/a> and a comment that pretty much sums things up too.\u00a0 (I wasn’t expecting the runny noses.\u00a0 Makes sense in hindsight…just not something I was thinking about going into it…)<\/p>\n
His other comment, made at the venue was “I don’t want those things in my body”.<\/p>\n
All in all, I wish a speedy recovery to all those involved and am looking forward to our next adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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