When you think of the phrase “bucket party”, what do you think of?
For me, I think of ordering a family-sized bucket of fried chicken from KFC and eating it over the course of an evening while watching NBA basketball. It’s not really a party by the conventional definition of the word because it’s just me by myself eating the chicken, but you know me. I don’t care about convention. I can have a party all by myself. And when I have fried chicken in my possession waiting to be consumed, it’s always a party. Side note: KFC biscuits are the bomb, but all their other sides are trash. Side side note: I keep seeing ads for Krispy Krunchy Chicken on the Pelicans broadcast and it’s making me jealous. I’m organizing a trip to New Orleans right now so I can try all the fried chicken places and also eat a ton of po’boys.
For you, when thinking of “bucket parties”, you might come up with something basketball-related. Something like a player scoring so many points that they were hosting a personal “bucket party” and the entire opposing defense was invited. Something like Jahlil Okafor completely taking it to DeMarcus Cousins and dropping an old-school thirty points without making a free-throw or a three-pointer. I think that’s a valid way to use the term. Jahlil had a bucket party just as much as I had a bucket party that one night when I ate the entire twenty-piece family bucket by myself.
If Jahlil wants to come over to my place, we can have both kinds of bucket parties at once. I’ve got a mini hoop attached to my wall that he can dunk on, and I could always use some help with chowing down on delicious fried chicken. (so hungry right now)