Monday, January 1, 2024

Nerf War

My mom got Troy and I some Nerf guns for Christmas, and we finally opened them today.  In the ensuing Nerf War that took place, I found out two things.  1) Troy couldn't hit the broad side of a barn door if he was standing two feet away from it.  2) I have some God-given gift for shooting a Nerf gun.  I couldn't miss.  Even when he tried running around the room to make it harder on me, I still nailed him every time.  I was leading him and firing where I knew he'd be seconds after I fired.  And I can fire, reload, and fire again in a split second.  I could get off six shots before Troy even got off one.  In fact, the only true issue that I had was running out of ammo.

So, to even the playing field a little bit, I built each of us a barricade out of cardboard boxes.  That way, Troy could hide behind it and make it harder for me to hit.  Harder, but still not impossible.  I found out that I could ricochet the dart off the wall and around the boxes to hit him on the other side.  I'm not this good with a real gun, so I'm not sure why I'm so good with a Nerf gun (maybe the lack of recoil).  I give all the credit to playing first-person shooting games on the computer all these years.

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