We were having a meeting (because you know, we had a conference table at the after-after party in Toronto, so why not) when the game emerged from the cockroach corner of our minds and spread through our veins until Storyawesomein, the neurotransmitter responsible for storying telling, became strong with us.

This could be one of those had-to-be-there kinda things. But it could also be one of those buy-yourself-some-sidewalk-chalk-and-rum-and-get-there! sorta things.

Recalling that a Dylan Lowe from England was there, its probably the latter. It’s why I appreciate having British people in the room. They are there to distinguish good ideas from poor choices–to cheer you on when you’ve struck idea gold and to make you feel ashamed of yourself when the tequila is doing the thinking for you.

It was a Brit who called the road to decorating banditry a “bloody splendid one” that was “righty O” with him in Livingston, Guatemala.

On the other side of the pence, it was another British guy who put the brakes on an idea that involved glowsticks, ludicrous amounts of rope, a wombat, a kite and the Dutch Embassy.

Were  it not for my British mate’s calling it the “wankiest, bloodiest, most rotten idea ever to come to wanker town” we likely would have gone forward with the plan. And in hindsight there is just no way that wombat would have made it out alive.

Okay, the story telling game…

Let’s set the scene: We were in Toronto for TBEX. It might have helped that everyone playing was a travel blogger: Britany from Stars on the Ceiling, Candice from Candice Does The World, Dylan from The Traveling Editor and Nick from Nick’s Travel Bug. We had chalk, and apparently, we knew how to use it to tell a story and had a lot to say with it.

Here’s how to play the game. It’s probably not so different to what your greatest grandparents used to play in the walls of their caves.

1. Assembly a group of the most ridiculous people you know.

2. Take a shot.

3. Sit down at a table.

4. Take another shot.

5. Bust out some paper, pens, chalk, pastels, markers, crayons, or whatevs and take a few more shots.

6. Then tell a story by talk turns adding a new visual and narrative twist to the storytelling.

On paper it sound fairly domesticated game. But trust me, this game pees on the floor and raids the garbage can, it nips the kids and digs holes in the yard to bury the dead rats it found in alley.

As you can hear… We were certainly enjoying ourselves.