Friday was hot--perfect weather for a Jello Slide on the USU Quad. We were invited to participate in the campus wide activity immediately following an institute address by emeritus general authority W. Rolf Kerr, on going beyond the call. You can imagine, people were pretty pumped up to go out of their comfort zones.
Now, take a minute and imagine what a jello slide might look like. I pictured something way different than what it really was. Basically, the organizers filled large garbage cans with jello and chilled them in a commercial walk-in refrigerator. Once they were close to solid, the garbage cans were emptied into a large, inflatable pool. Next to the pool was a giant strip of industrial plastic that was staked and watered down. Participants first wet themselves in the tub of jello and then run and hit the slide. Most people slid 70 feet, easily.
The rest of us stood around eating Grape and Tiger's Blood snow cones, trying not to get splashed by jello.
Here's a picture of a couple of girls debating whether or not the bus driver would let them on in their jello-drenched clothes. I think they ended up walking on without issue.
p.s. Had I not been dressed up in some of my nicer clothes, I totally would have joined the festivities. The good news is that I felt VERY good about my job interview earlier that morning for an on-campus IT position.
That's a new one to me-I"m wondering why the Jello is a more effective lubricant than something that had say a cup of glycerine and a cup of oil(extra virgin olive oil-light- of course) in it?
ReplyDeleteI'll bet those clothes didn't peel off so easily!