Games People Play

After commenting last night on whether someone was losing their marbles or just playing games with them, I realized that I don't know the first thing about playing with marbles. My grandparents had a big jar full of old marbles I loved, but since nobody in my family had the patience to try to teach me how to play any of the recognized games, I'd just take the marbles out and roll them around aimlessly, oohing and aahing over how pretty they were.

What's true of my relationship with marbles is true with a lot of other things. I wasn't a popular child or a coordinated child, so I didn't learn many games other than the dull ones taught in school. I didn't get to play the reindeer games then and so I'm feeling hopelessly ignorant now.

Maybe I should try to find some kids who can teach me how to play games, see if there are any kids out there who will put up with some crazy woman who's probably got less energy than their grandmother. Then I want to find a nice boy who will teach me how to kiss. Then I ought to seek out someone who can teach me how to play the grown-up games of social interaction whose rules still elude me. Then I need someone who understands the rules of office politics and how to play with the office toys, since my ignorance of those games is one of the things keeping me from getting some money now.

But, as usual, everybody I know is too busy to play with me today. Guess I'll go back to playing Solitaire.

Quote of the morning

From one of those e-mail forwards everybody gets:

Q: Explain one of the processes by which water can be made
safe to drink.
A: Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes
large pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and
canoeists.