Ice Apocalypse

Due to events in our LA hotel room, now would be a good time to explain the concept of 'Icing Bros'. This is a phenomenon tracing its roots to the frat houses across our great nation, involving Bros and Smirnoff Ice, a malt beverage that tastes a bit like Squirt. Its a girly drink and, aside from its 4.5% alcohol content, completely worthless. A bro will hide a Smirnoff Ice somewhere another bro will find it, such as under a pillow, toiletry bag, etc. When that bro finds it, he has to drop to 1 knee and chug it, no matter when or where. But, and this is a big but, you can counter ice. If your bro has just 'iced' you and you have a Smirnoff Ice on your person, you can counter ice your bro and he has to take a knee and drink both. Originally, I was going to post some YouTube vids of bros getting iced, but they're as pathetic as you'd expect lo-res vids glorifying binge drinking to be.

Of all people, it was MD who introduced this hilarious concept to us. And it got real the night of Day 10. Nick and Margaret DD'd Evan and I back to the hotel after a long night of drinking. Getting ready to climb in bed, Evan lays his head on the pillow, only to find his hand lying on a 24 oz. MD sprang out of bed: 'You just got iced bro! Take a knee!'. I'm laughing pretty hard at Evan until I rest my head on the pillow and find a 24 oz underneath and my face turns to shock. The ice in our room is so intense.

Well, Evan and I will not this act of aggression go unanswered. The next night, I had to leave the group early to desperately catch up on Peace Corps emails. But before I get back to the room I stop to pick up a six pack and prepare an Ice Apocalypse. After Nick, MD, and Evan get back from the bars, they get a hint of what's about to come when Nick discovers an Ice under his bedsheets.

The mood next morning is tense. Margaret is convinced there is an Ice under anything that is capable of covering. After getting iced once more from his luggage, Nick immediately runs downstairs to pick up an Ice in the lobby. Evan is iced from his laptop case while Margaret refuses to change, convinced that she's felt an Ice in her luggage. It's not there but is in her backpack and she's finally forced to drop a knee. Nick finds on in his toiletry bag, but counter ices Josh with the one he just picked up. Mysteriously we're still missing one at the conclusion of the Ice Apocalypse and we leave glad to know that soon a member of housekeeping will be forced to drop a knee.