Floor Fellows uncomfortably complete Cards Against Humanity game
Last evening, after a painfully awkward hour and nine minutes that—on several occasions—threatened to derail the Safe Space they work to uphold, four Floor Fellows at McGill’s New Residence Hall were enormously relieved to have finished the match of Cards Against Humanity they started.
According to Harrison Wong, U3 Engineering student and Floor Fellow on the building’s seventh floor, the ill-fated decision to play the popular card game was a result of a friendly suggestion.
“I was on duty yesterday and I thought it would be nice to take a little break in between doing rounds and play a game with some of my colleagues,” recalled Wong. “So I posted in our floor Facebook group looking for suggestions and a student from my floor replied saying that he can lend me a good one. I hadn’t played it before, but he said it was like Apples to Apples so I just went for it.”
“Honestly, I had no way of knowing what we were in for,” he added defensively.
Apparently, Wong was alone in that regard.
“When we showed up in Harrison’s room and the game was sitting there, me and the others all kind of looked at each other like ‘Oh no, here we go,’” said floor 10’s Hannah Gillespie (U2 Science). “I mean, he’s our friend, so we weren’t going to shit all over his game choice. But let’s just say Scrabble would’ve made for a more relaxed atmosphere.”
Rather than following the game’s stated directive of forming the most crass and card combinations possible, the four players sought to do exactly the opposite.
“You do your best to avoid being offensive, but sometimes, it’s just a death trap,” explained Gillespie. “Thank god when the category was ‘What’s Teach for America using to inspire inner students to succeed?’ I had ‘Giving 110%’ in my hand. I think I would’ve had to step away otherwise; my other options were ‘Copping a feel,’ ‘Racism,’ ‘Alcoholism,’ ‘Poorly-timed Holocaust jokes,’ ‘White privilege,’ and ‘The violation of our most basic human rights.’”
Wong returned the game earlier today, and reports indicate that he also stuffed in flyers for QPIRG and Safer Spaces workshops.
According to Harrison Wong, U3 Engineering student and Floor Fellow on the building’s seventh floor, the ill-fated decision to play the popular card game was a result of a friendly suggestion.
“I was on duty yesterday and I thought it would be nice to take a little break in between doing rounds and play a game with some of my colleagues,” recalled Wong. “So I posted in our floor Facebook group looking for suggestions and a student from my floor replied saying that he can lend me a good one. I hadn’t played it before, but he said it was like Apples to Apples so I just went for it.”
“Honestly, I had no way of knowing what we were in for,” he added defensively.
Apparently, Wong was alone in that regard.
“When we showed up in Harrison’s room and the game was sitting there, me and the others all kind of looked at each other like ‘Oh no, here we go,’” said floor 10’s Hannah Gillespie (U2 Science). “I mean, he’s our friend, so we weren’t going to shit all over his game choice. But let’s just say Scrabble would’ve made for a more relaxed atmosphere.”
Rather than following the game’s stated directive of forming the most crass and card combinations possible, the four players sought to do exactly the opposite.
“You do your best to avoid being offensive, but sometimes, it’s just a death trap,” explained Gillespie. “Thank god when the category was ‘What’s Teach for America using to inspire inner students to succeed?’ I had ‘Giving 110%’ in my hand. I think I would’ve had to step away otherwise; my other options were ‘Copping a feel,’ ‘Racism,’ ‘Alcoholism,’ ‘Poorly-timed Holocaust jokes,’ ‘White privilege,’ and ‘The violation of our most basic human rights.’”
Wong returned the game earlier today, and reports indicate that he also stuffed in flyers for QPIRG and Safer Spaces workshops.