Operation: 24 Hour Stay In A Broom Closet

Our mission was a success! Below you will find detailed accounts of our stay in the broom closet.

10:00pm We enter the broom closet
10:07pm Lisa gets struck by an EZcheese can while reaching for the sippy cups. The closet is already getting hot.
10:18pm We are having strange hallucinations. Lisa saw a blue cube, and Taryn was seeing yellow circles.
10:19pm We begin to play the game on the back of a Boo Berry® cereal box. We don't quite understand the game.
10:24pm We call Amy. (Yes, we had a phone. Two phones, as a matter of fact. Does that make us wussies?) Amy's mother was not pleased.
10:35pm Our tongues are blue. NoFX is playing for our listening enjoyment.
10:41pm We hang up the phone and eat a bag of beef jerky.
10:47pm We decide that we need exercise. Attempting to run in place and do jumping jacks, we fullfill this need. Sort of.
10:49pm We make a vow to exercise on the 47 of every hour.
10:49pm Taryn hurts her finger on the cooler.
10:51pm Taryn gets excited over over the sippy cups. (They're so cute!)
10:59pm We play with the touch light. Light on... Light off. Wow.
11:00pm We have survived for an hour in the broom closet. We have also used an entire grocery bag for our journal. (We forgot to bring a notebook.)
11:30pm Coloring time! Taryn loves Batman. Lisa prefers Timon.
11:47pm - 11:50pm We fan ourselves with the coloring books, often hitting ourselves also.
11:54pm Lisa has a nice conversation with a piece of string.
11:56pm We do 'the bicycle' for an exercise. Damn, we missed 11:47pm...
12:05am Lisa states that she would never want to be a toothpick. Literally.
12:12am We both decide that we would never wanna shit in our pants.
12:13am Taryn finds that she is sweating under her knees. Eww.
12:15am... or is it 12:16? After calling the Time Lady, we come to find that our watch is a minute fast.
12:19am Radio sucks.
12:23am The realization that we have been in the broom closet for 2 hours and 23 minutes finally hits us. What were we thinking?
12:24am Nappy time.
12:27am We consume the ice in the dirty cooler. We can't fall asleep; it's just too damn hot. Now THESE are real struggles.
12:30am Taryn discovers the joy of ice cubes. (Take that as you wish.)
12:32am Taryn inquires "What's his face?" Lisa immediately responds with "Bob Dole." It was really Dave Matthews.
12:33am Lisa powders her feet. Loverly.
12:34am Lisa plays 'piñata' with the coats.
12:35am Taryn refuses to perform sexual favors on a yardstick.
12:42am We search the coat pockets for money. Our findings include six dollars and 4 pieces of gum. We also find many canisters of Breath Assure®.
12:54am My brother is using the phone in the kitchen, and he's grounded from the phone. Naughty him.

SECOND BAG

12:59am We start bag #2. It is very crumpled.
1:03am Taryn accidently touches a gross thingie stuck to the bottom of a shelf.
1:08am We sniff smelly markers. Lisa decides that they should make one that smells like shit.
1:12am Lisa has fruit smelling fruit drawn on her toes.
1:20am We venture to the potty straight across the hall from the broom closet. We needed to pee, all right? Um... Amy has recently informed us that it looks as though it took us 25 minutes to pee. This is a misconception, however. We also brushed our face, washed our teeth...etc.
1:45am We return to the closet, ponder sleeping, and then go to bed.
10:43am We awake and hear mysterious noises that are coming from the outside world. And since Lisa feels the need to tell you all of our bodily functions, she went to the bathroom at this time. Taryn went at an unlogged time during the night. Sheesh.
10:45am Taryn goes potty... again. We hand a white garbage bag to the demanding voice outside.
10:51am We come to realize that our precious string cheese is emerged in water. ARghh.
11:10am Taryn's phone dies. RIP. Lisa uses her other phone to ask for another camera and a lighter, and to talk to Taryn's aunt.
11:15am A lighter apprears from beneath the door.
11:16am Lisa lights some incense. We're dumb, okay?
11:17am Tiki torch appears briefly through the door, and then leaves.
11:18am It's getting pretty smokey in here. *cough cough*
11:20am We check the portable TV to see what's on. A talk show, Divorce Court, Arthur, and some other show are on. We turn the TV off and put Eve6 in the CD player.
11:28am We play with incense. Weee that was fun.
11:36am We decide to play the dot game. Lisa = blue and Taryn = purple.
11:41am Incense dies.
11:42am Taryn finishes the dot board, and we begin to play.
1:29pm Game over. Lisa wins 161 to Taryn's 159.
1:39pm We eat watered down string cheese.
1:43pm We clean ourselves up with baby wipes.
1:57pm Taryn spills juice all over herself and yells "shit!"
2:09pm Taryn rips a baby wipe. Lisa then refers to our journal as a 'napkin'. Now you begin to see the effects of staying in a broom closet for way too long.
2:21pm Ice cream comes flying through the door. It is a gift from... God? No... just from Taryn's mother.
2:35pm Taryn pisses.
2:36pm Lisa pisses.
3:00pm Nap time. Everclear is in da player.
3:15pm We observe that being locked in closets with sippy cups bring one back to their childhood. We kick the coats and throw sippy cups while having temper tantrums.
3:20pm Closet makes for hair loss. Taryn is losing lots of hair.
3:21pm Taryn pees.
3:25pm Lisa pees. (Look here, people. We drank a LOT of fluids. It was fecking hot. Fecking. hehe)
3:30pm We sing along with Jewel. Yes, Jewel. We scare ourselves.
4:24pm Lisa pees. HAHAHHAAHHAA
4:46pm The EZcheese sprays up onto a coat after Taryn attempts to put some on a cracker.
5:20pm A coat eat's Taryn's arm. Really, I swear it.
6:37pm We play our own version of Taboo®. Only 3 hours and 23 minutes left to go!
7:29pm We are annoyed with parents. They keep trying to keep us from reaching our goal.
7:40pm Taryn pees. Woohoo.
7:45pm Uhmmm we can't quite read this. Wait! Wait.. it says 'guitars'. So we played our guitars.
8:00pm Dakota (Lisa's doggie) visits.
8:04pm We check the TV again. A tornado warning is in effect for northern Polk county. Apparently, the worst of it is directly over Blomgren Road.
8:11pm Dakota leaves.
8:17pm We watch "Law and Order". Some guy with Alzheimers kills his wife. Yeah.
8:23pm We have some stale triscuits. Yum.
8:58pm "Law and Order" ends. We have one hour left before our mission is complete!
9:00pm Lisa pees and puts on her swimming suit.
9:05pm Taryn puts on her suit.
9:06pm We are now watching "Dateline NBC"
9:36pm We turn the TV off.
9:39pm We hear that my parents are talking about one of our friends and how my brother has a huge gigantic crush on her.
9:56pm Beer and ice cream come through the door. Taryn's parents and Lisa's parents are a bit... well... drunk.
10:00pm WE RUN OUT OF THE FUCKING CLOSET AND GET STUCK ON A FISHER PRICE® SLIDE WHILE ATTEMPTING TO SLIDE INTO THE POOL. Mission complete.

So there you have it. Hopefully pictures will be up soon. Not like any of you will come back to look at them, but oh well. If you're wondering what lessons we learned from our experience, here they are:

1. Always bring a fan when you are planning to be in small, unairconditioned places for long periods of time.
2. Parents will give you beer if you stay in a broom closet for 24 hours. Yahoo!
3. TV reception is poor in a broom closet.
4. Ice cream tastes better when eaten in a broom closet.
5. No matter how gross the cooler is, the ice that comes from it is always good when used in a broom closet.
6. Watch for falling items from above.
7. Take batteries out of the Touch Light® before going to bed.
8. Staying in a broom closet forces you to live a second childhood.
9. Search your coat pockets! You never know what you may find.
10. Never stay in a broom closet for 24 hours. Get what you need, and GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE!

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