Too Old To Begin The Training

I hope you guys haven't all gone away, losing faith that I would ever write again. I apologize. To be honest I have been totally uninspired lately. Besides, after the busy days we have been having at work, the last thing I want to do is come home and type. Maybe I should hire myself an assistant.

I promise there are good things in the works, so please be patient.

The other night I ended up hanging out at someone's house, and as these kinda things go, someone pulled out the game Apples to Apples. Through out the past couple of years this game has become less magical, less funny and more insidey jokey, but the other night was one of the worst games to date.

After drawing out the adjective, dead, we all began to look through our hands of nouns to pick out the best answer. Someone from the group asked if Ghandi was dead. There were a lot of blank looks, and so I finally informed the group that he had been assassinated, and besides he would be very old by now.(Yah, I learned about Ghandi in Grade 9). The game moved on, until someone said, "Who's Ghandi anyways?"

I gave my new acquaintance a brief history of an imperial India and hunger strikes, but I don't know that it did any good.

Only a few cards later, someone drew Frank Lloyd Wright, and after again no one knew who he was, I told the group he was an architect. Only to be asked, "What's an architect?"

I spent the rest of the game playing my more 21st Century nouns, and held back things like the Challenger Explosion and the Bates Motel. I didn't think I could patiently explain that the Bates Motel was from Psycho, an Alfred Hitchcock movie, only to undoubtedly hear, "Who's Alfred Hitchcock?"

I understand that this all sounds like I am a little too pretentious for my unread friends. But obviously the creators of the game thought these were famous enough people and events, or they wouldn't have included them. And I know that I should cut my younger friends some slack, after all most of them were born long after any of this would have been current events.

But maybe pick up a book or two, enroll in a history class, read wikipedia, if only to make Apples to Apples that much more fun.

Oh well, what am I going to do?

Yup.

As Always,