The Board Game

26 September 2010

Doesn’t it feel like we are all trapped playing a board game sometimes. We started playing with our well meaning friends who tell us this game is easy you roll the dice a few times and walk your chips around the board until you reach the end where you cash your chips in for a healthy baby. They’ve all since long gone around the board -some of them have even lapped us and wonder what is so hard about it. They've even tried to let us win.

But wait, some of us have been shortchanged with less playing pieces, having to wait a really long time to take our turns, needing a team of assistance just to roll the dice, or paying a horrific amount of money for the chance to start. A few have made it part way around the board only to land on the “back to the beginning” square while others can’t get past go no matter how many spins we take.

Sometimes were are heavily medicated while playing making us real sorry sports when we lose. We jump up and down and stop our feet when it doesn’t work out again and again. Hummmph! I don’t like this board game. There is nothing fair about it. Each time is like a roll of the dice -the kind that is trapped in pop-a-matic bubble so you can’t even accidentally bump it to try to get it to land on a more favorable number. It also seems the rules are constantly being changed and the odds are stacked against us to roll a winning series of plays. Wait a minute, the board game just suddenly lost a bunch of ladders and gained more snakes. Grrrr....

We hang in there hoping to stumble upon this random streak of luck eventually, while our fertile friends have long since moved on to more sophisticated games, or prefer to play board games now with their own children. I'm going to invent a new game with better chances of winning, or at least finishing. Anyone want to play with me?