I was at my brother's house the other night and when I was walking through the living room, there were my daughters, my buddy's little girls and my 5-year-old nephew...arms akimbo, legs all wrapped around one another, playing twister! Now, who among us hasn't had right foot blue, left hand yellow at least once!?
It got me thinking about games like Twister, that have withstood the test of time and technology, and been passed down to generations of kids. Like operation! I still love that game. I used a two handed technique to pull out the bones, (no I didn't win much) light bright, which I hear is really bright and cool these days!
Remember etch-a-sketch!? Cool, but all my pictures looked the same! Spiro graph and the different colored messes you could make by dumping paint onto a spinning piece of paper, then you get a little older and the games change. Maybe you have a run-in with a Ouiji board. I still haven't figured how those things work. They work right?
It was at an 8th grade party where I got my first taste of spin the bottle aka "try and suck the tongue out of the head of the girl you had a crush on.” College - truth or dare was fun and then somehow it all comes full circle and what was once just a fun, athletic, flexibility challenge, suddenly turns into the Kama Sutra of party games and somewhere, hopefully when no one's watching, you're on the same mat playing naked Twister with the opposite sex!
Well, you know what they say...don't hate the playa!
