Episode 25 - “Games People Play”
Carrie wonders if games are necessary to make a relationship work. My wife and I play Boggle a lot but that’s not what she means. No, these games are tests like waiting three days to call a girl after a good date or knocking a girl up and leaving the country to see if Miss Preggers will follow. (If she does, you should father up.*)
Instead of a test, some guys choose to lie but I don’t go for that. Rather than tell a girl I’m a doctor, I prefer to test her, see what she’s made of. I think you find out a lot about someone by holding her nose and covering her mouth and seeing just how much she’s willing to fight for air, literally speaking. Some girls really want to live and others, well, I’m sure they were nice people.
Another cool test is to propose to her with a ring that’s one size off. Tell her it’s a family heirloom and you don’t want her to alter it in any way. Then, sit back and watch. If it’s too big, see if she’ll eat her way into it and if it’s too small, see if she’ll have her knuckles surgically shaved. The look on her face when you tell her it wasn’t a family heirloom nor is it even a real diamond? Well, I don’t want to ruin it but it will start out as green as her finger and shift to a red that will match your soon to be slapped cheek. That’s fun. Unfortunately, it’s hard to keep the relationship going at this point.
Nevertheless, games are fun and I encourage you to come up with your own and send them to me. The best ones may just make it into a future entry.
I was most definitely a Carrie. As a Jerseyan, I can think of no other man I would want to play Twister with than Jon Bon Jovi.
* “father up” is a phrase coined by this blogger meaning to suck it up and be a good dad. Used in a sentence: “Jim needs to father up and acknowledge his son Jeff because that would be the perfect present for Jeff’s ninth birthday.”
