preadolescent "tortures"

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

>
> There was the game in which one guy held his hands out palms
> up and another guy rested his hands palms down on the first
> guy's hands. The idea was that the guy with the quicker
> reflexes would slap the hands of the guy with the slower
> reflexes as hard as he could. This was actually a mild form
> of bullying, since the guys good at this didn't challenge one
> another. Rather, they challenged only slow-reflexed chumps,
> such as your humble correspondent, slapping their hands or,
> worse, causing them to flinch for fear of getting their hands
> slapped, until they finally caught on that they were always
> going to lose.
> Oddly enough, opting not to accept a challenge to play this
> was considered to be merely good sense and not cowardice.
> Unfortunately, I can no longer recall the name of this "game."
>

And if you flinched three times, the other fellow got a free slap.

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