Water Bottle Flipping?

Ha ha - so I asked and yes it is a thing. So they had to show me and then I tried and then we decided if we continued the poor water bottle was going to bust open. It is kind of challenging if you haven't tried, but about 5 tries was enough for me.

 

Driving me nuts in our house... but the worst is that it has translated to other objects! I had to tell the boys to STOP with the big thermoses that we have for soccer. Thud, Thud, Thud.... STOP! You break it, you buy it (a new one, lol!)

 

I am so thankful that this is one craze that does not seem to have made it over to Africa yet.
I hate these kinds of noises so for me it's just as well.

 

@IntenseMagic my kids have been driving me NUTS with this water bottle flipping thing for about 2 months now.

No bottle is safe, with my kids around. Be warned.

 

Oh my goodness. I'm not alone!?!?!? My 12 year old is driving us insane. Didn't realize it was anything more than his attempt to annoy us. Today he spent hours at a swim meet perfecting the flip to land in his cup holder of his camp chair!!! I'm ready for this craze to be over

 

I think it depends on when kids learn about it. My son learns it at Boy Scout camp. Then brings it home to school and then to swim practice. Swimmers bring to their schools and kids at school share with their other groups... So on and so on. Looks like you just had the pleasure of knowing sooner. Lol. How long did it last?

 

It started as the flip and catch. Now it's the flip and land on lid or into cup holders. My son is supposed to only do it outside but did it in the van today and the darn Gatorade bottle landed onits lid on the dash while I was driving. Of course that was totally "fire". Or awesome. If I used fire right. Lol

 

My son has not mentioned it so I'm assuming it hasn't reach here yet. I'm hoping it doesn't ever reach here lol

 

@navaja77 if he has access to the internet, it'll only be a matter of time

 

I guess your kiddo isn't as much online as I am. Haha! Which is a good sign.
Things go so quick on the internet, what was new last week is old today. If you don't jump on it right away, you're too late. If you live on the internet, that is. Which is both a great and a sad thing.

 

I teach in secondary school and it's definitely a thing with my students! They generally don't dare to take their water bottles out of their bags in the classroom but I have to tell them to stop flipping their pencil cases instead, haha!

Actually I'm not too bothered by it. I find the 'dab' movement with their arms much more annoying

 

I hadn't heard about this until it was talked about here at the Lilypad... I don't think it's going on at Emma's school; I'm gonna have to ask her.

 

luckily the kindergartners I was teaching weren't up on the trend. That's good because they'd probably forget to put the cap on!! LOL. For sure the high schoolers (especially boys) do it. We were at this Across the Generations bookclub for my daughter's 12th grade English class and we were all sitting around a table talking about bias and racism and the boy sitting next to me was holding his bottle and starting to swing it. I looked at him and started to laugh. I said, "You are totally going to try to flip that bottle right now, aren't you?" He looked at me sheepishly, smiled, nodded his head and put his bottle on the table. His mom just rolled her eyes at him. It was the best.

 

oh no - his parent restrictions really control where he can be online

 

oh, another pet peeve - the dab. let's combine the dab as a celebration of making a killer flip. LOL

 

do so at your own risk. hahahaha

 

I will admit I tried it a few times at work today in an attempt to show off and be "cool" at home. epic fail. hahah