Truth or Dare With Coke

I was in my fifth grade in my grade school days when I first played this fun game.  It was introduced to us by a classmate who was two years older than we were, but because he stopped schooling, he ended up two grades late.  He was supposed to be a high school student at that time. 

We were sprawling in the open field in our school.  It was time to go home, but we did not yet traced our steps back to our houses.  Instead, my classmates and myself just laid down on the bed of grass, and watched the blue sky above us.   Eric (the one who was two years older from us) stood up and suggested that we played a game that he learned from his older brother.

Excitement was drawn among us.  There were ten of us and an even distribution of gender lying in the grass .  All immediately stood up and started to asked Eric what is the game all about.  He turned about face and told us to wait for him.  It wont take him long.  Seconds later, he came back and he carried an eight ounce bottle of Coke. 

He immediately started to explained the procedure of the game.  Until, we graduated from our grade school year, Truth or Dare with Coke has become our favorite game before we trekked back to or houses after school. 

When I was in high school, there were times that I played the game with my friends still using the Coke bottle as our props.  When I was in college, still the Coke bottle was used in this game.  Now, how did I realized this?

It was only recently that I watched a Korean novela when this thing popped out of mind.  There was a scene, where the nearly ill fated lovers, together with their unsuspecting new partners, played Truth or Dare.  Lo! I immediately recognized the bottle.  It was a Coke.

Then, memories started to flash in my mind about my encounters with the game.  Then, I concluded how come that it was always a bottle of Coke.  I saw many movie scenes and TV scenes too used Coke bottle as props for the Truth or Dare Game.

It made me wonder.  What is with Coke bottle that it is the usual props for this game.  Is it the shape of the bottle, not only you can spin it easily but of course rolls and moves out to other direction?  Or is it not that Coke is a bestselling softdrink and that its bottle are immediately found in most houses?  Or is that figure of the bottle that its mouth serves as an arrow that points to the person who will be engaged in the game. 

Why Coke not Pepsi?  The only time I saw this game played different props is in the movie Truth or Dare In Bed with Madonna.  The movie lead used Evian bottle as the props, since it was not a Coke bottle, maybe Madonna did not find it sacreligious to used the Evian bottle as more than a props for the game. 

She went further.  She used it as meat substitute to simulate oral sex.  Can I do that with Coke bottle?