The Amazing Race - The Marathon

On Friday afternoon Green Eggs and Tam, along with all of our fellow BCIT BJ students, took off their Journalist trench coats, put on their runners and took to the pavement for charity. Every year our instructor MK puts on a 5k run to raise money for the Michael K. Thurston High Flight Memorial Endowment - a scholarship she started in honor of her late husband.

Both being very competitive by nature (and loving to dress up) we decided that this would be the perfect time for our very first Green Eggs and Tam Experiment. Armed in our knee high socks, short shorts and runners we took to the Great Hall and set the timer...

2 Girls, 5 minutes, 1 chance...

Purpose: To see who can raise the most money for the race.

Controls:

1. Location - The Great Hall - 12:35 pm
2. Outfit - Matching short shorts, knee highs & ponytails
3. Time - 5 minutes

Variables:

1. Confidence - Christine's arrogant smack talking VS Brittany's fear of asking strangers for money
2. Amount of Skin - Christine's bare legs VS Brittany's exposed shoulder

Stakes: Loser buys winner a beer at the pub after the run.

Procedure: Meet in the location, set the timer, divide and conquer. Both girls set off to individually ask for donations. After 5 minutes tally up the total.

Observations:

Christine: Approached only male students and one professor. Many claimed not to have any money on them. Got yelled at once by the grumpy professor.

• Techniques included: running on the spot to show athleticism, shameless amounts of flirting and rubbing her bare legs.

Brittany: Approached any male or female who would listen and some who wouldn't. Many ignored her attempts and glared disapprovingly.

• Techniques included: lengthy explanations of the cause, sussing out other media students and drawing attention to her outfit.

Results:

Christine: $4.62
Brittany: $13.17

Conclusion: In a shocking turn of events Brittany tripled Christine's fundraising efforts. Turns out Christine's overconfidence was no match for Brittany's competitive determination. All in all this was a successful first Green Eggs and Tam Experiment and an extra $17.79 was raised for the charity.


Comments:

"Brittany kicked my ass and I was a little demoralized. I was, however, able to rally from the defeat and come out on top in the run. I wasn't counting or anything but if I was to guess, I'd say I beat her by about 13 minutes and 54 seconds." - Christine

"No way man! First of all I did the run even with a major knee injury. Christine is just mad because she got her ass handed to her on a platter. Plus, I won't even get into who raised the most money pre-experiment. Actually, lets get into it: Brittany $50/Christine $10. FYI Christine's bank statements reveal, she took $10 out right before the run." - Brittany

Until next time....

xx
Green Eggs and Tam