Post Office (game)
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Post Office is a kissing game historically played by American teenagers at parties.
[edit] Rules
The group playing is divided into two groups, regardless of gender and orientation. One group goes into another space or room, such as a bedroom, which is called "the post office." To play, each person from the stationary group individually visits "the post office"-- once there, they receive a kiss from every member in the room.
Once everyone in the first group has taken a turn, the other group begins sending members to the first room. In this way every member of both groups is guaranteed a kiss from every member of the opposite group.
[edit] References
- A 1954 television episode of The Jack Benny Show with Fred Allen guest-starring, Benny is surprised by Allen hiding in a closet. When Benny demands to know what Allen is doing in the closet, Allen says "Playing 'post office.' Kiss me!"
- In his unfinished novel Answered Prayers, Truman Capote writes: "Kissing her, according to Dill, was like playing post office with a dead and rotting whale: she really did need a dentist."
- In the 1968 movie Yours, Mine and Ours, Frank, played by Henry Fonda is on a date with a younger free-love hippie. The date is interrupted by Helen, played by Lucille Ball. While Frank and Helen commiserate over the problems they have with their respective children, the hippie says "Why don't you drop me off at the exit, then you two can play post office!"
- In an episode of I Love Lucy, Ethel makes mention of Fred suggesting they play Post Office the previous night when a beautiful guest arrived at their dinner party.
