•    Wear old shorts and a T-shirt you don’t care about.
•    Sit with your best friend, a large bowl of fresh cherries wedged between you.
•    If the cherries still have the stems attached together at the top, drape these over your ears and admire each others’ earrings.
•    It’s time to get competitive. Close your eyes in ecstasy as you suck every bit of flesh off a cherry. Draw the pit toward the back of your mouth, take a minute to focus, and then catapult it all the way to next week. See who can spit the furthest. (This is best done outdoors.)
•    Put two open tin cans at a fixed distance and see who can get the most pits into their can. One pit in your can = one point.
•    If you spit your pit into the wrong can, deduct two points.
•    Best out of 10 wins. The winner must treat the loser to ice cream. Or wine.
•    Do NOT insert any pits into your nostrils, no matter how amusing an idea this seems to be.
•    Do NOT insert any pits into your nostrils, even if you have been drinking.
•    Do NOT insert any pits into your nostrils, even if you are six.
•    Eat cherries until you have a slight tummy ache. Then eat at least five more.
•    Tell someone gullible that if they swallow a pit, a cherry tree will grow out their bum.
•    Your mouth should be stained very red now. Go kiss someone.
•    Don’t go very far from a bathroom for the next few hours.