The game of paintball is quite popular with many young men in the corporate world, mainly because the game reminds them of their boyhood years not so long ago. Many recall the thrills they had running and crawling from one paintball bunkers to the next of the many Bunkers for Paintball they took cover in, in the various paintball competitions in which they had participated. As young teenagers, they even thought of joining the military service, as they wanted to experience shooting with live bullets real live enemies.
Their folks then however advised that real army life would be very much different from the war games that they play in the super paintball competitions. Their parents insisted that they pursue studies in college so they can join the corporate world in their adult years, and help run the many enterprises they will qualify managing if they finish college studies.
The would be soldiers then in their boyhood went on to join corporations as executives, but still have boyish desires in their hearts when it comes to “shooting” sports, like paintball. Paintball games have thus become quite popular with corporations.
Since the game calls for so much concentration of both mental and physical strength, the corporate guys holed up in their offices in sedentary jobs much of the time, look forward to paintball as a form of exercise to work up a sweat every time they get a chance. They look at paintball as a fun game to play, while getting the chance to perspire heavily during the games. Just running and crawling from one Coleman Paintball to the next laid out in the paintball “battleground” leaves them panting for breath, and physically exhausted after the end of a game.
The corporate paintball warriors continue the paintball talk even in their corporate boardrooms, in breaks from serious business discussions. The board chair, who is a paintball addict himself, usually starts the small talk especially at the end of the day when everyone is ready to knock off work and head for home.
The chairperson usually calls for the usual round of beer they said they missed in the last paintball game they had, saying the Bunkers in Paintball in the next game they will play will become more formidable to cross if they do not strengthen themselves now with the beer.
The corporate paintball warriors are of course just looking for excuses to consume more beer, anyway it is already off office hours and a round or two of the stuff will not do any harm in the drive home. Being veteran paintball players, and veteran beer drinkers, driving home to them after the beer session will be a breeze.
They only stop the beer when their secretaries remind them to start for home as the wives have called. However, some secretaries are smart enough to ask their bosses to stop the beer, as their beer bellies are beginning to show and that will make them easy targets for their enemies in the next super paintball game they will play in the coming weekend.
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