# Wet challenge at a wedding.

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Posted by Mark on June 04, 2020 at 09:51:58

My fiancee Lucy has persuaded me to tell the tale of me getting wet and muddy along with my cousin Nigel, whilst my younger brother John managed to contrive not to complete the challenge.

It was the summer of 2010, June if I recall rightly, and I was 15, just a couple of months short of my 16th birthday, and John had just had his 11th birthday a month previously. Auntie Pauline was mum's younger step-sister and was marrying a guy called Terence, a police officer. The wedding reception was held at a local community hall near where they lived on the outskirts of Norwich. The day been fine when we arrived at the church but had turned cloudy as we all left the church and walked down the road to the hall, which was set in large grounds that consisted almost entirely of one big lawn that sloped away from the terrace at the back of the building to the boundary fence.

All the kids present were sat on a table together near the glass doors that opened onto the terrace. We were told it would be OK to go outside if we got bored with the speeches and formalities. One of the older boys had brought a football along and suggested that we have a kick about. So we all ended up going outside, there were enough of us to form two teams of five with a couple of the girls joining in, the other girls just spectated. All the boys were formally dressed in suits and ties but that didn't stop us from tackling and falling around as we played. It started raining after a while and we all went back inside.

When the rain stopped we went outside again, the ground must have been quite hard due to the sunny weather because a large puddle had formed at the bottom of the lawn alongside the fence. Inevitably someone kicked the ball too hard and out of play and it splashed into the puddle. Cousin Nigel ran over to get it and just splashed into the ankle deep water without hesitation, soaking his shoes and the bottom of his trousers, which didn't concern him in the least. After that the ball was kicked deliberately into the puddle a few more times and Nigel splashed into the puddle each time, getting his trousers and shoes wetter and wetter. Finally John asked if anyone was brave enough to slide into the puddle and get properly wet. Amid the general laughter and noise of boys challenging each other to do it, Nigel was heard to say "Yes I will, if you do it as well, John".

So that was it. Nigel also challenged me and another one of the older boys to join him. Nigel is a year or so older than me and we had always had this friendly rivalry whenever we met and he was one of those boys who would try anything once whether he knew he get into trouble or not. It was him who made me try my first cigarette and take my first taste of whiskey and gin from bottles he'd 'liberated' from his dad's drinks cabinet. I agreed to the challenge fully thinking that Nigel would not go through with it, I knew I'd be in trouble if I got my suit wet, but the thrill of the challenge was too powerful. And to my horror, Nigel actually went ahead and did a running dive into the puddle sliding across the wet grass on his front with the water spraying over his head and shoulders and down his back as he slid through the water. He was drenched when he stood up, his suit jacket and trousers shiny wet and his pale blue shirt almost see through. He brushed a hand through his wet hair and laughed as he looked down at himself.

My heart sank when he said loudly "Your turn now Mark, then you Peter and then John, you all promised if I did it."

I took a deep breath and ran forward before sliding straight through the puddle, coming to a halt in the middle deepest part, before standing up, soaked to the skin as much as Nigel was. All the other kids were shouting and laughing and making lots of noise as they watched us. I remember really enjoying the feel of my trousers sticking to my legs and the weight of my sodden jacket on my back and arms, I was enjoying the sensation when I saw behind the crowd of noisy kids, my mum approaching along with a few other parents as they marched down the lawn. Nigel's mum walked up to him and just told him to take his wet jacket off and go and dry off in the cloakroom. I got the biggest telling off from my mum that I had ever had in my short life - worst of all it was in front of all the other kids. She demanded to know who had encouraged me to do such a foolish thing, at which point Nigel stepped forward and said "Sorry, it was my idea, it was just a bit of fun and it's only water after all."

Mum didn't speak to me for the rest of that day or as I sat in the car on the way home in my still wet clothes - a part of my punishment apparently, "It's your own fault if you feel cold, it might teach you to be more sensible in future." In actual fact it was the first time I had got wet in clothes that I shouldn't have (I'd got wet a few times in football kit before but that was during a game and quite normal) and I found that I enjoyed it, so when we got home and I was told to "go and get out of those wet clothes and then go to your room", I took the opportunity to have a warming shower, still in my suit.

After that day I regularly got wet in my clothes, usually just jeans and tees or sports kit and my school tracksuit, and found that there were quite a few other boys at my school who enjoyed doing the same. Our housemaster at boarding school was quite used to boys fooling around and getting wet or muddy and as long we didn't get mud and wetness indoors he was happy to let us do as we liked within reason with the one proviso that we do our own resulting laundry and cleaning up rather than expecting the house-keeper to do it for us.

Follow Ups:

- Re: Wet challenge at a wedding. Ry 21:50:19 6/06/2020 (0)
- Re: Wet challenge at a wedding. Kayne 11:58:59 6/04/2020 (3)
  - Re: Wet challenge at a wedding. Ry 17:08:48 6/04/2020 (1)
    - Re: Wet challenge at a wedding. Kayne 17:30:21 6/04/2020 (0)
  - Re: Wet challenge at a wedding. Mark 13:29:14 6/04/2020 (0)

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