RGN at American Axes

 

American Axes

No Grudge Required to Bury the Hatchet

          For birthday revelry, what could possibly match up to burying the ole log-splitter a couple of inches into a helpless wooden target, splinters raining like June sleet?  Nothing, that’s what!  

DAP Tales

DAP Tales’s birthday sets right in the early weeks of spring, so we needed something suitably spring-ish to do to celebrate.  Anyone who knows DAP, knows she’s a real Viking at heart, so hiring a gondolier for a serenade over a stagnant pond or traipsing through a bloom garden filled with bees isn’t going to, ahem, hack it.  But tossing honed axes like some modern day frontiers-folk?  Perfect!

Mr. Adrian

          American Axes, at 821 Livingston Ct suite G, Marietta, GA, had just what we needed.  Surprisingly located inside a corporate office park, the setting in no way distracted from the excitement of the experience and if it had been raining, all the better!  For a very reasonable fee, we reserved a private room for throwing, though open lanes areas are also available. 

Mr. Adrian

With a private room, it’s only your loved ones and close friends you’ll need to worry about beheading, not random strangers, which is convenient, for the legal minded?  To prevent any accidental dismemberment, though, their trained axe experts will walk you through the safety rules and how-to’s of getting that perfect axe throwing mojo.

   

      We had our COVID-ready room (sanitizer for hands, as well as for the axes and surfaces, placed neatly in the room) for an hour, while the masked but happy gang of us took turns abusing the poor wall of wood, with its painted circles and bulls-eye.  

In any situation like this, obviously some people are gonna have the gift, while some others just don’t; at the end of everything, I finished with a perfect record.  That’s just how it goes.  Never mind that it was a perfect record of not sinking a single axe hit in the target.  Let’s just focus on the “perfect” part.  DAP had her share of hits, though (Viking, like I said) and everyone had fun.

          It is an adult oriented activity (must be older than 12 to throw) but its suitable fun for the whole family.  Those who don’t throw can keep score, like our Beanie did, but we did break the rules one time... eep!

They don’t serve alcohol (for obvious reasons), though it is allowed if you have you own (for obvious reasons), though open drunkenness is not tolerated (for obvious reasons) and no horseplay is allowed (for obvious reasons).  And nothing announces you’re getting ready for fun like signing your name on a waiver. 

TRINISON

R. SHARP

Y. WALKER

Happy Birthday, DAP Tales!  You can check out American Axes online, to see if it’s right for you; I’m just a blogger, so I wooden know.  But hey, you did axe.

About Phil aka alFalaq

al-Falaq is a writer and illustrator living in Atlanta, Georgia. He loves cats and shares his home with an ornery fur ball with nine tales, at least!  His collection of poetry and short stories, Threadbare is available on Amazon.