After having a discussion about favorite childhood board games at work I hopped on eBay to find a hand-made board of my favorite game just like the one I had as a kid. Well it finally came in the mail last week and on Saturday Kurt and I brought the game to our friends’ house.
Most of our games are some kind of useless trivia thing, which everyone sucks at except my darling fountain of useless knowledge, Kurt. So when we play those games everyone just resigns themselves to loosing while we listen to Kurt drone on and on about the history of something that we didn’t ask about (I love him, I really do, he makes for a great sleeping pill). Now the game I bought on eBay I thought it would be a great game to play because it’s only about 5% strategy and 95% luck, but I really should have known better than to buy a game that has aggravation in the name…actually that’s the whole name.
Since there is no control in the game it drove Kurt absolutely bonkers. On our first round of this game our friends and I had at least one marble moving out around the board, but for the life of him Kurt couldn’t roll a one or six to get his going. Kurt sat there and worrying that the game would finish before he even got one marble out, and he wasn’t quiet about it either. Aggravation is really an under statement. He bitched and moaned and pretty much did everything but throw himself on the floor and hold his breath (we would have preferred that actually – it would have been funnier and maybe even quieter).
After all his complaints he not only got a marble out on the board, but he eventually won the game. So we played again…and again it starts…
See Apostate, Kurt isn’t just a sperm donor he’s also blog fodder.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:21pm
“He…pretty much did everything but throw himself on the floor and hold his breath (we would have preferred that actually – it would have been funnier and maybe even quieter).”
Yeah, I’ve seen him do that at meetings and it is pretty funny.