Post Office (game) & Spin the Bottle

[applecruncher]

The thread from Ferocious (selling kisses) made me think of the old party games Post Office and also Spin the Bottle. Remember those? I think I was in junior high when we played Post Office, but thinking back...eeeewwww :yuk:

Getting teens turned on....great idea...

I'm not sure, but I doubt kids today bother with such games. Or maybe they have new ones. :shrug:

 

[dkay]

I got my butt beat all the way home with a fly swatter for playing strip poker in a neighbors garage (I think I was around 10) Really made me mad too because I was winning. I'm not sure kids play those kinds of games anymore. Nowadays, the boy's mother would probably have posted on the internet how I was corrupting her son even though it was his idea. Why play the games when teens seem to ( sadly) be sending lots of nude photos to each other instead?

 

[Gary O']

It was somewhat educational to have big sister

Heard about ‘post office’…never got any details, just knew it was a game where something clandestine could happen…probably

Looked in on ‘spin the bottle’ when I was around 4
Interesting…all I can say
I was just rapt with the spinning of the bottle


I may have reverted to that interest

 

[StarSong]

I'd heard of playing Post Office but never did, nor did I actually know how it was played. I do now, thanks to the Internet:

"Post Office is a kissing game played by boys and girls at parties. It has been referred to in popular culture since at least the 1880s.

The group playing is divided into two groups – typically a girl group and a boy group. One group goes into another room, such as a bedroom, which is called "the post office". To play, each person from the other group individually visits "the post office". Once there, they get a kiss from everyone in the room. They then return to the original room. Once everyone in the first group has taken a turn, the other group begins sending members to the first room."

Once was enough for me with spin the bottle - it was weird, uncomfortable and embarrassing.

 

[Mrs. Robinson]

I'm not sure, but I doubt kids today bother with such games. Or maybe they have new ones. :shrug:

I haven`t heard if they have any new ones but apparently they don`t play Spin the Bottle anymore. Hubby and I were teasing our 13 yo granddaughter when she was off to a party recently and asked if that`s what they would be doing. She looked at us with her eyebrow furrowed and said "What?!?" She had never heard of the game. So Gpa proceeds to tell her and tells her she has to teach the other kids. She was horrified. But then,she has four older brothers,so the idea of actually kissing a boy still makes her gag lol. We checked in with her just last weekend on the subject (Gpa aske her if she had taught anyone "that game" yet and the answer was "NO!"