First Line, Last Line

I love family dinners. Every night we try to sit down together to eat dinner. As my children have gotten older it has gotten a little more challenging as one child needs to leave to get to an event before another gets home from work. Now two of my children have gotten married and moved out so we have their company even less frequently. (It was almost three years ago that Hannah last sat down to dinner with us at home, but she is coming back to the States next month!!!!) In spite of all this, those of us who are at home try to sit down together to eat dinner whenever possible.

These dinners together are a chance for us to share what we did that day, discuss and coordinate schedules, and sometimes just talk about whatever comes to mind, which is when things get fun.

My kids were drama kids and there is an improv game where someone gives a group of actors a first line and a last line and they have to improvise a skit that incorporates those lines. Occasionally at one of our family dinners someone will make a comment in the course of our conversation that is recognized as being a good "first line" or "last line". Two comments were made last night, one at dinner, and one shortly after we had finished that were recognized as being good "lines" for this game.

First line: "If I wanted my house to be radioactive, I wouldn't build it out of bananas." (-Peter)

Last line: "Adding wheels didn't make it any less elephant shaped." (-John)

Would you be able to improvise a skit that incorporated both of these statements?