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Friday, September 20, 2019

I-Spy(d)

We live a ten-minute drive from a large city.

A city that has more stores than our bustling little town.
Stores we occasionally need to shop at when we need something more than groceries.
Enough background . . .
We (Husby, Daughter, Granddaughter and me) were heading ‘into town’.
For a three-year-old, it is a long, exhausting trip.
A game of I-Spy was indicated.
For the first few turns, all went well.
Granddaughter would pose, “I spy with my teensy-tinesy little eye, something that is . . .”
You know the game.
She posed. We guessed.
We posed. Everyone guessed.
Then it was Husby’s turn.
He started out all right. “I spy with my little eye . . .”
But then it all fell apart, because he ended with: “. . . something that is red but not red like Mommy’s bicycle.”
There was a momentary silence in the back seat as this riddle was digested.
Then a high little three-year-old voice said, decisively, “That’s not right Grandpa!”
I want to emphasize the word ‘decisively’. Because nothing else better describes a little three-year-old playing a favourite game.
This statement was immediately followed by: “You’re out.”
What? No warning? No yellow card?
Straight to the red (but not red like Mommy's bicycle) card?
Huh.
Did you know it’s possible to be immediately ejected from a game of I-Spy?
By a three-year-old?
Well, it is.
Take note.
Oh, sure. They look sweet and innocent.
But give them a striped sweater and a whistle?
Then watch the claws come out...

8 comments:

  1. Of course it is possible to be thrown out of the game for not playing the rules.
    Something the little 'uns know and our adult selves forget...

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    1. From the moaning and complaining from he-who-was-voted-off-the-island, you're absolutely right! ;)

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  2. Everyone knows the youngest player makes the rules. Unless everyone else wants to suffer the consequences of not letting her (or him) do so.

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  3. This sounds awfully familiar. Our seven year old grand-niece was visiting a few weeks ago and I played a game of her invention with her. Amazingly, she could score points like nobody's business, but all my turns were fraught with mysterious new rules . . . lol

    I hope Grandpa was suitably chastised :D

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    1. Sounds like 'Calvin-Ball'! Oh those games that only they understand!

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  4. Yep, i will remember and try to learn the rules. Let's hope they don't change often, my memory isn't good enough for that, i think.

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    1. Gahh! I have to play AND remember the rules! One too many things for me! ;)

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