You may be asking yourself why I would post this incredibly amusing picture on my blog. And I agree that's a very noteworthy question...A good friend of mine, sent me an email today with this picture that in her words "might solve all Mick's problems." Now the game!
We play this really, really, extremely quirky game in our family...called "The Relative Game". It started out on the night before a family wedding...I can't even remember who was getting married, but JoAnn, Mick and I were talking about the fact that the person marrying our family didn't really know what they were getting into...I mean really had they met "Aunt Cackle" and various others? Then JoAnn and I started comparing relatives against Mick's and the game was born.
Basically, the rules are:
1. The person with the weirdest relatives wins (or looses...depends on your perspective.)
2. You HAVE to claim even the most obscure relatives who may in any way be "loosely" related to your side of the family. And when we say "loosely" we mean loosely. IE. Mick has to claim his sister in laws, grandmothers, long lost son AND a lady we know from home who used to live in his parent's ward...you get the idea.
So now we play this game fairly often. Always when we are having a family wedding and various other times, just because we can...not to mention that it TOTALLY amuses us.
(BTW...Mick usually looses the game, well, unless Ernie is playing. She has the BEST trumps.)
3 comments:
I have an aunt who broke her arm and wrote me a letter (while I was a missionary) describing (in detail) the way in which she washed her armpit (she took a wash cloth and after soaping it up placed it on her knee and then used her knee to wash the pit).
This same aunt (married to my dad's brother) became a widow in her 50s and she decided that as two single women (me in my 30s) we should share tactics to meet men. She suggested that we go hang out at cemeteries because that is where all the widowers hang out.
Seriously, don't tell Mick...I lived with you and will now have to claim your aunt as a relative when we play. That is awesome!!!
Oh I am sure that you now have to claim Heidi as a relative! That just might trump the dog house on top of the van. I love it! I can't stop laughing!
Ernie
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