Sometime around the time when we were doing apple wars every fall we
invented darkness pillow fights. By this time our mobile home had
been added onto twice and we had a utility room that came off the
middle off the house and was full of furnace, washer/dryer and two
freezers and a massive amount of clothes and random junk. We would
outfit ourselves, cousins and friends with pillows or pillow like
objects and go into the utility room. Then everyone got to get a good
look at when everyone was and then the lights went out. It was a
bashing free for all swinging dodging and getting whacked hard in the
face. I remember spending much of the time with my face flexed into
the preparing for whupping grimace that I am not sure helps but I
was left with little other recourse because my hands were actively
engaged in trying to inflict a little bashing myself. One part that
was paradoxically fun in an interesting way was that when you got hit
really hard, and just right, and were maybe mildly concussed your
eyes would flash bright white lights and colors in the pitch black
which was an amazing sensation. Like apple wars there was really no
rules or point as such you just went on pummeling until you got tired
or someone got hurt and then the lights came on and we would laugh
and talk while we tried to sort out who got who and what was the
funniest thing. Then after a breather the lights went back out and
the fun went back to high gear. My personal favorite move was to hide
on top of one of the chest freezers and wait for someone to talk or
make a noise and then try to him them mid word for extra comedic
effect. For the record it is really funny when someone is talking and
gets stopped mid thought with a well placed whack.
