why is there never enough for a full bowl at the end of your cereal packet?

[kazminx]

this does my nut in!! every single last amount of cereal is less than half a bowl..anyone else noticed?? also...who starts a mexican wave? how do they know everyone will follow? sorry but these things are annoying me!!!

[kazminx]

my sis went into her sink to get a cereal bowl for her last bowl and they were all stuck together. as these were her only cereal bowls (4), she also has a temper like me. she calmly took the basin with all her dishes and cutlery, took it out the back door, got a sledgehammer and smashed everything to bits. she deposited all in the bin. went into town and bought a new dinner set and a cutlery set...talk about insanity in the family!!! now, i can see the logic in that!!!

[laurence2]

But Kazminx, of the 12.5 bowls of cereal we get from a 375g box, on average at which bowl of cereal does the Kiddies toy fall out, i reckon its between the 4th & 6th bowl of cereal tho i have no hard evidence to back this up

[sophie_1003]

on our box of cookie crisp the free toy was a cd on the front of the box lol!

[alfiebrady]

Mexican waves: usually started by the bloke wanting to go for a slash before half-time.

[kazminx]

my son just puts both his filthy disgusting smelly hands all through the cereal til he finds the surprise gift!! needless to say i have my own cereals!! yuck...you should see where he puts his hands too!!

[robbo82]

I seem to have the opposite problem: I have the right amount of cereal, then go to pour the milk on and not quite enough is left. There's nothing worse than half-dry cereal.

As for the mexican wave/football chant thing, it just requires a big enough group of you; I've succesfully managed to start a Mexican Wave with some other friends before, and am forever trying to get chants going, sometimes more successfully than others...

[wiggum]

Why not just buy your next box before the first one runs out then you could really push the boat out and have 40g+ EVERY day ;-)

[dilf]

if you pour half a box of rice crispies in the bath with you you can play mexican waves by simply peeing along the waterline on one side and dropping the soap along the other side as they wash by .
and you can pretend the snap crackle and pop is the fans chanting.

[dilf]

put some wheato's on some sugar puffs and throw them in as well - hey presto authentic sombrero's.

and if you were to trump and follow through you could pretend we were playing the germans. haha

[NACL]

okay - i intend to reply to all the topics:

1. not enuff cereal - my suggestion is that on the next-to-last bowl, you just pour all that is left and completely forgo the actual last bowl - just have a next-to-last bowl that is REALLY really full (it actually becomes the last bowl, but don't tell the cereal that 'casue then you'll be back where you started...)

2. not enuff milk - okay, this one is easy - just put the milk first, then put PART of the cereal in, eat the cereal and then with the milk that is still there, put more cereal. just keep doing that until you've had all the cereal you'd intended to have that morning. :D

3. chants at football games - okay, for this one, i am guessing that this refers to the world cup that is going on. the college i went to had "yell leaders" (not cheerleaders, but those would probably work, too) who would get the crowd rowdy and guide them to all say the same "chant" (we called 'em yells instead of chants) in unison

4. mexican wave - again, here guessing world cup stuff, but all i know of is a "texas wave" (that's what we call it here in texas, usa) - usually some member of a group (that probably knows each other) says to the others "hey, lets do the wave" and if they all agree they count 1,2,3 and all stand up with arms raised and yell - the group next to them sometimes picks up the hint and goes along... usually, it takes quite a few tries to actually get the adjacent groups to join in (i have started a wave or two *proud grin*)

hope this helps! maybe more than you were looking for, but, hey! :D

[kazminx]

thanks for that...nacl...im dying to start one now!!

[Backdrifter]

Just have 37.5 g per serving then you'll get a nice round 10 bowls.

The wave must be started by a group of people working together, not just one bloke. And it usually has a few false starts before it gets going. And is very boring.

Also, why does no-one ever say "Guess what! I wasn't thinking about you... and then you didn't call! What an amazing coincidence!"

[NACL]

ok, kaz! let's start a wave... ready?

1, 2, 3, *stand up, arms raised* "YAAAAAAAAY!"

(okay, you are s'posed to join in...) :D