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Girls have barbies and boys have guns?

Boys always tell us to run along and play with our barbies or tell us that all we think about is hair, nails, shopping and boys. Even though we may take a beating sometimes, let’s face it, boys love it when we play with them. Now girls - I will share my knowledge with you. The technique is to go dressed like me (see pic below), distract the boys and job done.

Girls Have Barbies and Boys Have Guns

Boys always tell us to run along and play with our barbies or tell us that all we think about is hair, nails, shopping and boys. Even though we may take a beating sometimes, let’s face it, boys love it when we play with them. Now girls - I will share my knowledge with you. The technique is to go dressed like me (see pic below), distract the boys and job done.

Woman in underwear covered in paint holding paintball gun

I played at Delta Force Paintball Surrey. There were ten of us in our group, all girls. We had never played paintball before but there is always a first time for everything. We thought we might be boo hoo’d by the guys but it was quite the opposite. They were really chatty and were fighting over us (all of a sudden they wanted to play with girls, I wonder why??).

Our team was split in half so we had boys on either side to make up the numbers. The boys on my side were great, they even let me hide with them (again, I wonder why). The marshals were very good but very strict with us, but I guess they have to be to keep everyone safe. Three, two, one game on shouted the marshals. Guns starting firing, grenades were going off, I managed to shoot a couple of boys and then ran out of paintballs, bugger. They had me pinned to the ground at gun point. It was off to the dead zone for me. At this point I thought perhaps the boys were right?

Girls have barbies and boys have guns for a reason! But at least we looked good trying!