Recycle Rush was a terrible game but the bins and totes were great multipurpose gear. The bins were a great place in which to take a nap in the pits if you needed one. Our human player tipped the bin over, curled up inside, and fell asleep. To wake her up, one of the freshmen drummed on the side of the can, and she flipped him off.
We also stuck a speaker in the bottom of a can, propped it up on a tote, and blasted music. It actually boosted the volume!
The totes made handy chairs in a pinch, if you flipped them over. You’d never sit on them if the lid was facing up because you’d fall in, no matter how light you were. We’d either flip one onto the small end and sit there or stack one or two up upside-down. The bins were not good seating.
Of course, there were the times when we clambered into a can, stuck the lid on, and were rolled across the floor of our practice field. That was fun. I recall an MC hiding himself in one of the bins during NE Champs (either that or BattleCry) and bursting out for opening ceremonies.
I feel like somebody cut the zipties off of a tote, stuck someone else’s phone in there, re-ziptied it, and then stuck it out amidst the field of totes by the midpoint section. Actually, that probably didn’t happen, but it would have been a great prank if it had.
All of our scrap parts were eventually transferred to the dozens of extra totes that we now had, and the bins were eventually actually used for recycling. We never bothered erasing the “DO NOT RECYCLE THINGS IN HERE” message in Sharpie written across the lids of all our bins. (It never worked, anyway.)
