Sunday, March 14, 2021

When LIFE is Funny

Here is a silly little story.

My boyfriend and I were playing the board game LIFE the other day. I hadn't played it in decades. Do you know this game? I thought it was really fun when I was kid. Now it's not as fascinating lol. Basically, you spin a wheel and move around the board collecting your salary, paying your taxes, and running into both rewards and accidents that either give you money or require you to pay. Like I said, I found it more interesting when I was a kid. Now it's just too much like, well, life. Ha!



Everyone in the game must have a job for their salary and every player must get married. 

Not every player will have kids. That depends on whether or not you land on a space that says you have a son, daughter, or twins. If you do land on one of those spaces, every opponent must pay you a $1,000 (double that if it's twins). It's like a required baby gift or a mandatory baby shower attendance. Or, maybe it is simulating paying taxes for public education (something I'll never complain about in real life, I want my community educated). 

My boyfriend landed on three of those spaces and had a son, a daughter, and then twins. 

I did not land on any of those spaces. Even when playing a board game I don't have kids.

The funny part to me? I won! At the end of the game, he had all those kids and no money and I had no kids and all the money. Hahahaha.

Now if only that were true in real life!! Where's all my money, Universe?? 😂😂

10 comments:

  1. That's funny! And what's better is that you can laugh about it.

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  2. Dear Phoenix, I am happy that you can write about this with humor now :-). I am sure it would have been a bit different a few years ago. Much love from rainy Switzerland!

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  3. Exactly! I agree. I've been reading through my old posts to add labels to them, and I don't think I would have found this funny just a couple of years ago... I will add another label to this post: Progress in Recovery. :)

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  4. Haaaaa haha! That's amazing: "The funny part to me? I won! At the end of the game, he had all those kids and no money and I had no kids and all the money. Hahahaha." Oh Game of Life, you prankster. Glad you can laugh about it too.

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    1. Me too. <3 Because it seriously cracked me up :)

      I'm thankful for grief work and progress in recovery.

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  5. OMG, we used to play this all the time when I was a kid... haven't done so in years, though! We'd all try to get as many kids as we could because then you'd collect presents/money! lol I guess things haven't changed for some people in that regard...! I'm glad you wound up with the fatter bank account in the end, though! ;)

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    1. Yes! I remember playing as a kid and my friends and I always wanted allll the kids. I remember just wanting to fill my car up with pink and blue pegs. There wasn't really any reasoning behind it lol.

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  6. So hilarious! I wrote about this very game in 2009 (!!!) and my experience turned out to be just like yours. You might get a kick out of it: https://www.coming2terms.com/2009/11/29/the-game-of-life/

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    1. Oh my gosh! Hahaha. The same thing happened to you playing that board game! Thank you for sharing the link to your post. I'm not alone, in more ways than one! :)

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