View From the Bushes

So I ended up playing quite a few games over the weekend. Friday was family game night. We played a ton of Fooie (also known as Nerts, I think) and we also played a little Apples to Apples. For those unfamiliar with the game there are red apples and green apples. The green apples generally have adjectives on them like fast, hot, soft, evil, etc. The red apples are generally nouns: Las Vegas, my mind, Martha Stewart, penguins, etc. Players take turns playing green apples and then everyone else chooses one of the seven red apples in their hand which most closely matches the green apple. The player that laid down the green apple then judges which of the red apples he likes best. As such when you lay down a red apple you're playing to the judge (in fact, when you play a card like "my body," it refers to the judge's body), thus the story...

So I'm the judge and the word I laid down was "hot." The other five people lay their cards face down on the table and I collect them, flip them over and start reading them. There's "fire," "smoke," a couple of others like desert, and then I get to "babysitters." I'm not sure who played it, I think it was my sister-in-law, but whoever it was and whatever they were trying to say I knew that I didn't want to get anywhere near that... idea or... concept. So I immediately eliminated it from contention. Still I have to wonder what it says about me that that card was played at all. Perhaps that I have finally made the transition from virginal nerd/geek to lecherous old man. I guess I'll have to cross that goal off my list.

Progressively more organized
Ross