9beers: repeat

The other thread was about China alone. This one is about International Pillow Fight Day around the world, hence the tag change to "followup".

She swung the pillow in a swift rising arc, disabling the attack from the front. I saw my opportunity to take her off-balance with a firm hit from my Serta cooling gel, medium firmness model, but some amateur teetered over, a stained motel pillow held limply over his head. In one fluid motion, she shifted gracefully to her heels, and gave Motel Pillow what appeared to be a graze across the chest and a casual, stiff-fingered jab between his floating ribs. Had I not seen the latter, hidden from any other point of view, I would have mistaken the poor bastard's strangled expression for theatrics.

My rhythm was interrupted and my swing weak. She only needed to duck her head and shove my passing arms to spin me into a face-plant. I scrambled best I could, but could only get one knee under my hips before she bounced on and started pounding me with the pillow.

Now it was over, and as she stepped away her shadow left my view. I rolled over weakly, my elbows weeping blood from the asphalt's caress, and took in her silhouette against the amber arc of the sodium streetlamp. She stood there, breathing in the cold night air. Her hair was slightly stringy with sweat, but it was her white tank-top, stretched and ground against pavement and walls, that gave her the look of some escaped maniac. She shifted forward, offering a hand. Although her clothes were stretched or wrinkled well past their recognizable shape, the light grazing her extended arm showed surprising strength on a lean figure, over-qualified to take on drunk, stoned, atrophied weekend pillow swingers.

I had found my warrior, my Amazon Woman, and I knew we would battle before dawn. When her rough hand jerked my up by the wrist and into her arms, I realized the final weapon would be passion, not pillows.

Well, thats just ducky.

geekbikerskum: quatchi: Does anyone actually own pillows with down in them anymore?

I remember them from years ago. They were annoying as hell and twice as itchy.

Yes. They're wonderful.

If they bothered you, perhaps you're allergic? Poultry feathers/dander is a relatively common allergy. (Perhaps one reason why feather pillows aren't so common any more, along with cost.)

Yep. My sister had to switch from feather to foam pillows when we children due to allergies. We had to get rid of our parakeets too.

Military pillow fight (new window)

Beerguy:

I'm going to have nightmares