Proposal for a New Survivor Series
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Proposal for a New Survivor Series
You may have already seen this, but I hadn't, and think this is the perfect place to share it:
THE NEXT SURVIVOR SERIES
Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks.
Each kid will play two sports and either take music or dance classes
There is no fast food
Each man must take care of his 3 kids; keep his assigned house clean, correct all homework, complete science projects, cook, do laundry, and pay a list of "pretend" bills with not enough money. In addition, each man will have to budget in money for groceries each week.
Each man must remember the birthdays of all their friends and relatives, and send cards out on time. Each man must also take each child to a doctor's appointment, a dentist appointment and a haircut appointment . He must make one unscheduled and inconvenient visit per child to the Urgent Care (weekend, evening, on a holiday or right when they're about to leave for vacation)
He must also make cookies or cupcakes for a social function. Each man will be responsible for decorating his own assigned house, planting flowers outside and keeping it presentable at all times.
The men will only have access to television when the kids are asleep and all chores are done. There is only one TV between them, and a remote with dead batteries. Each father will be required to know all of the words to every stupid song that comes on TV and the name of each and every character on cartoons.
The men must shave their legs, wear makeup daily, which they will apply to themselves either while driving or making three lunches.
Each man will have to make an Indian hut model with six toothpicks, a tortilla and one marker; and get a 4 year old to eat a serving of peas.
Each man must adorn himself with jewelry, wear uncomfortable yet stylish shoes, keep their nails polished and eyebrows groomed. The men must try to get through each day without snot, spit-up or barf on their clothing.
During one of the six weeks, the men will have to endure severe abdominal cramps, back aches, and have extreme, unexplained mood swings but never once complain or slow down from other duties. They must try to explain what a tampon is for when the 6-yr old boy finds it in the purse.
They must attend weekly school meetings, church, and find time at leastonce to spend the afternoon at the park or a similar setting.
He will need to read a book and then pray with the children each night without falling asleep, and then feed them, dress them, brush their teeth and comb their hair each morning by 7:00. They must leave the home with no food on their face or clothes.
A test will be given at the end of the six weeks, and each father will be required to know all of the following information: each child's birthday, height, weight, shoe size, clothes size and doctor's name. Also the child's weight at birth, length, time of birth, and length of labor, each child's favorite color, middle name, favorite snack, favorite song, favorite drink, favorite toy, biggest fear and what they want to be when they grow up.
They must clean up after their sick children at 2:00 a.m. and then spend the remainder of the day tending to that child and waiting on them hand and foot until they are better.
They must have a loving, age appropriate reply to, "You're not the boss of me".
The kids vote them off the island based on performance.
The last man wins only if...he still has enough energy to be intimate with his spouse at a moment's notice. If the last man does win, he can play the game over and over and over again for the next 18-25 years...eventually earning the right to be called Mother!
After you get done laughing, send this to as many females as you think
will get a kick out of it and as many men as you think can handle it.
Hope you are smiling and counting many blessings...including being a
MOM!! (or the husband of one incredible woman!!!)
Never saw this one before. It is excellent. Thanks for sharing
Yes, I have seen it, but it's definitely worth repeating!
I haven't seen this either. It's pretty nice to see everything we manage to do, listed out this way.
I hadn't looked at it that way, Tink. I was just laughing at the idea of men (not all, but many) lasting out the "survivor tests". You make a very good point - this is what we do, all the time, and it *is* good to see it listed out.
Just have to brag, my DH can and does do all of the things. He handled it all beautifully for the 10 long days when I was on my Operation Smile mission in Nicaragua--getting them to and from school, after school activities, packing lunches, fixing dinner, getting homework done, etc. And I came home to a clean house with NO dirty laundry. Yep, I know. I have a keeper and a survivor.
P.S. I was a little concern about the details, so I just quizzed him. He knows the boys dentist, doctor, shoe/clothing size, birth weight (off 4 ounces with the youngest) and favorite everything. He was a little too short with labor for the first and too long with the second, but I think Ill let that slide.
I haven't seen this before. Thanks for sharing! lol
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