Twenty Questions

This is a fun game to play, as is Charades, in a large group at a party. But if that party is a waiting queue on Market Street on Fourth or Fifth, the game becomes no fun real fast as the lights go red again, and the buses back up behind the red lane in the middle of the street. I am currently in a dilemma about how to come to the end of the game fast enough to get the party moving!

The quickest solution, as any experienced improvisation comedian will attest, is to agree with anything! The secret to improv is to agree with your antagonist in the audience or on stage, to keep the train moving, usually with hilarious inventive add ons. The same could be said with giving directions in a crowd of visitors. 

“Do you go to the Piers?” Yes. 

“Do you go the Wharf?” Yes. 

“Do you go to the Bay?” Yes.

 “Do you go to Market?” Yes. 

Should not that be the end of it? Unfortunately, no. More questions to follow. So here is where I have to get the flock moving. Hmm. We know from Animal Planet and the Discovery Channel that huge numbers of birds take flight when a threat is perceived. 

That’s it! I need to give them a threat to get them moving! But I need to stay calm and friendly.