My experience with leapfrog was not only disappointing, embarrassing, and sad, it was downright non-existent. I had told my roommates and my friend whose 21st birthday was on Halloween that I wanted them to play leapfrog with me on Saturday night for this assignment. "No problem" they say, "Sounds like fun" they say. So we head to Pub II around 9:30 all decked out as the employees from Smart Tech (from 40 Year Old Virgin) and all is going well. We ordered a few drinks, shared some laughs, and around 11:00 I remembered, "Oh! We have to play leapfrog."

Well...my roommates who were down as a clown before we left the apartment decided that it was too crowded and they would be too embarrassed to play a game of leap frog. "Well..." I say, "What if you just get down and pretend like we're playing leapfrog instead?" Apparently, this would also be too embarrassing for them, so I cursed them and tried to figure out a plan. After one of my roommates saw I was disappointed with him, he suggested that I just ask random people to play with me. This was where things got very embarrassing.

I am very much, in general, a shy person. I very rarely talk to anybody I do not know without being spoken to first. I am certainly not the type of person (even if I am very much under the influence of alcohol) to just start talking to random people in bars. Seeing though how this was something that needed to be done, I mustered up all my courage and pretty much shouted at the top of my lungs "HEY DOES ANYBODY WANT TO PLAY LEAPFROG??!!!" Wow, the reaction I got was the exact opposite of what I had hoped for. Instead of three or four people saying yeah sure, I got stared at by everybody for about ten seconds. It seemed like the music stopped and I was the entertainment for the evening with my red face and trembling hands. I promptly told my friend and roommates to chug their beers, we were going elsewhere.

Since I didn't get to play leapfrog there and was out of town with no camera Sunday, I was scrambling to find somewhere or someone of significance with whom I could get this assignment done. After worrying about it for a few hours, I realized that instead of finding some insignificant place or person to play leapfrog with, I would rather tell my story of embarrassment and anguish at NOT getting to play leapfrog. I guess lesson learned: If your friends think it would be too embarrassing...too damn bad, you're doing it anyways.