Road Trip Wednesday: How I'd Impress the Hunger Game Judges

Me being taken into the hovercraft.

Road Trip Wednesday is a "Blog Carnival," where YA Highway's contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question and answer it on our own blogs. You can hop from destination to destination and get everybody's unique take on the topic.

This week's topic:

How would you impress the Hunger Games Judges?

I don't really have any noticeable athletic abilities. If put into a life or death situation I would lose all ability to be clever or quick-thinking, and probably control over my bladder. However, we're all equipped with a natural instinct to survive. Which is why I would shamelessly show off my ability to play dead.

Yeah in comparison to the bow-wielding badass Katniss or the artistic cake decorating Peeta, playing dead might seem . . .dull. A cop out.

BUT

Think of how many times people fall for the he/she is dead act, only to turn their backs and get strangled/maimed/shot/axe thrown into their spine (I think that was a B flick back in '92). Not that I would do any of those things in the arena. The second the hovercraft assumed I was dead and beamed me out of there, I'd cause some big distraction, and hightail it somewhere to hide. So yeah, a total cop out. I own up a thousand percent to being a chicken.