Bored college kids like playing late-night games at Wal-Mart

[matcom]

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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- On a snowy Monday night recently, Northern Arizona University freshman Natalie Eickmeyer finished her studying and decided to go out and have some fun. So at 10 o'clock, after scouring a dormitory for participants, she and five friends headed to the Wal-Mart discount center.

The students had no intention of shopping. They were going to Wal-Mart to play games.

That night, she and her pal Amy Zimmerman, a college junior, decided the group would play "10 in 10." The captains of the two teams each spend 10 minutes putting 10 items in a shopping cart. The carts are turned over to the opposing teams which have to figure out where the items came from and return them to the shelves where they belong. That's no easy feat in a store stocked with more than 100,000 different items. The first team back to the checkout counters with an empty cart is declared the winner.

"It's big, it's the only thing open after 9 p.m., and you can get away with more," said Ms. Eickmeyer, explaining why she and her friends regularly use Wal-Mart for various challenges.

From scavenger hunts and aisle football to a relay race limbo under the shopping-cart stand, college students around the country -- particularly in rural areas -- have found Wal-Mart's endless aisles and 24-hour operations to be perfect for middle-of-the-night romps.

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[RubyDuby in GA]

1. Ah, that's what I did wrong

When I was in school and we all got bored, we'd get drunk and sleep around. Guess I shoulda gone to Wally World. Who knew :shrug:

[progmom]

2. When I was in college we used to go "Meijer-ing"

Similar to the above, but also involving altering clothing displays to make them as hideous as possible - polka dots with plaids, fuchsia with charteuse...you get the picture.

[LiberalEsto]

3. One of my kids did that

with friends when she was in college in North Carolina.

She lasted one semester there before fleeing back to civilization.

[TlalocW]

4. We didn't necessarily go to Walmart for our fun

But when we did go, we had fun.

The best time we had was when one of our group found some Biblical Action Figures that had been opened in the toy section. We sat down on the lower shelves while he did a poorly dubbed kung-fu version of Moses versus the Pharoah for 10 minutes that had us laughing so hard we were in tears.

We also noted that on the box of one of the unopened figures, they had spelled "Philistine" wrong. :)

TlalocW