Last year, my club basketball team travelled to Medicine Hat
for a tournament which we finished in 2nd so it was a very successful
and fun tournament. Fun because of the bonding that went on the second night of
the tournament. The three hotel rooms which myself and 11 other team mates were
staying in were all connected by adjoining doors that opened into each of the
rooms. Our coach had told us no shenanigans and that light out by 10:30 pm or
we would be benched. So of course we were in bed and trying to sleep by
10:29pm. I remember waking up to this shriek of laughter and rolling over to
look at the alarm clock which read “12:30”. I laid in bed staring at the ceiling
for a second thinking that it was just in my dream until I heard another just
like it. At the same time everyone in my room sat up in bed and turned on the
lights. The laughter continued and we followed it into the middle room where we
saw the girls from the far room join us and the others in the middle room. We
turned on the lights to find our teammate on the floor laughing uncontrollably.
Everyone was confused until we realized that the teammate that she was sharing
a bed with had rolled over and pushed her out of the bed. All at once the room
was flooded with shrills of laughter followed by girls clutching their stomachs
from laughing so hard and falling over on the floor. Everything we did after
that was hilarious and it’s safe to say that no one got any sleep that night.
At 3:30am when there was a loud pounding on the door, we froze in terror
glancing back and forth at each other and then burst out into another uncontrollable
wave of laughter. After a few seconds, one brave girl answered the door to see
our grumpy coach at the door to tell us that there was a noise complaint about
the sound coming from our room. This made everyone laugh harder and before long
we even had our grumpy coach laughing.
