My girlfriend (mentioned in this thread) and I have a slight dilemma. Here’s what happened:
As you can see from that thread, we live quite far apart, and only see each other at camp (GUCI, if any of you know of it). I decided that this year, I would fly to Kansas to surprise her. I had it all worked out with her parents and mine, but she found out. However, we don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, so she’s going to pretend she didn’t know in advance. This requires her to act surprised.
Only problem is, she’s not that great at acting surprised. So I need a few suggestions as to how she can play this off.
She’s going to be waiting at the gate with her family to pick me up. She’s supposed to be expecting a relative.
What we need here is one of two things:
1.A way to do this so that she doesn’t have to act surprised or
2.Pointers on how she can act surprised from any good actors in the crowd.
Any and all help is appreciated.
Well, she could take a drink of something as you approach, and then do a spit take. :eek:
From what I’ve seen in reality shows, the main things to do is:
- Squeal
- Jump up and down
- Throw your hands up in the air
- Say “Ohmygod, ohmygod!” in a high pitched voice.
- Hug person lots.
Probably too forced, but probably better then the usual smile, exclamation, hug, and cursing the perpetrators routine.
You could turn up a day early…
Maybe you could tell the parents that you suspect she’s found out, then tell your girlfriend that you aren’t going to be able to make it after all. Cite some kind of family issue on your end. Be very remorseful. Then make arrangements to come a week later or something. You could even set it up so that some relative of hers who lives far away calls her family to “arrange a visit.” (With her parents’ help, of course.) That would make her think she is really going to be picking up a relative. You get off the plane, she really is surprised and everyone is happy.
Wear full clown gear including makeup.
Trust me, she’ll be suprised.
Class =)
I bet he wouldn’t get through security like that though.
wear a trenchcoat and floppy hat and gloves and sneak up behind her and cover her mouth and wrap your other arm around her at the elbow. then drag her down the corridor, push her down on the nearest table and mount her,
wait, no, just turn her around and take off the hat.
just a little spin on the clown idea!
She could always try fainting.
Have her stand next to a wall to really cheat.
Or try smoking during the flight. She’ll be suprised as you are escorted off the plane by the police.