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Sarah and Jenn must have found Risk when they wanted to play mancala at the coffee shop yesterday after Al and I had to leave...because Sarah, knowing my fondness for old-school Risk, mentioned to me that they had a really old game of Risk there.
"Ooo, I should take it!" I heard myself say. The idea barely seemed to come from my own mind, it just sprung fully formed, like Athene from the head of Zeus. I'm not that devious. But I did really think it'd be cool and probably quite possible to take the Risk game we only used once and explain to them that I'd rather have their old one (I checked; it is from 1975).
And just as I was about to say "But Jenn might get mad if I give away an expensive present for an older model..." I was told that Jenn had had that same idea.
I came home and discovered that Jenn had almost switched them already without telling me. She was mad that Sarah had told me, because she was still thinking of surprising me with it. But I assured her that I'd come up with the idea on my own, Sarah had only told me that Jenn concurred. Now that we both knew that the other person involved wouldn't mind, we took Risk and went to the coffee shop.
We talked to the lady who had, earlier that morning, brought us coffee and asked us to stay for the magazine pictures and laughed at us for saying we were actually talking about being Lutheran. (This coffee shop is on its third owner since I started college, and it's currently owned by a Lutheran church or two in town. And the national magazine that was coming was a Lutheran one, the lady told us.) Anyway, she said she didn't care and we were thrilled and she called us strange and I laughed.
I was in TMC waiting for my friends to show up for lunch today when, in the next booth, I heard a student and a lady I recognized as my old Spanish prof from freshman year discussing the evility (as Jenn would put it) of tests. "Why can't it just be like in Harry Potter," the prof said, "where they cancel final exams?" I have seen Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and I got the joke so I laughed and she heard me. She looked over and asked me, "Don't you think that sounds good?"
"I think it's a wonderful idea," I said.
"You kids would have to kill a monster first..."
"Yeah, we'd have to save the day or something," I agreed.
Then the girl said the coolest thing: "I'd rather stick my wand up a troll's nose than take my physics final!" And then they left.
"Ooo, I should take it!" I heard myself say. The idea barely seemed to come from my own mind, it just sprung fully formed, like Athene from the head of Zeus. I'm not that devious. But I did really think it'd be cool and probably quite possible to take the Risk game we only used once and explain to them that I'd rather have their old one (I checked; it is from 1975).
And just as I was about to say "But Jenn might get mad if I give away an expensive present for an older model..." I was told that Jenn had had that same idea.
I came home and discovered that Jenn had almost switched them already without telling me. She was mad that Sarah had told me, because she was still thinking of surprising me with it. But I assured her that I'd come up with the idea on my own, Sarah had only told me that Jenn concurred. Now that we both knew that the other person involved wouldn't mind, we took Risk and went to the coffee shop.
We talked to the lady who had, earlier that morning, brought us coffee and asked us to stay for the magazine pictures and laughed at us for saying we were actually talking about being Lutheran. (This coffee shop is on its third owner since I started college, and it's currently owned by a Lutheran church or two in town. And the national magazine that was coming was a Lutheran one, the lady told us.) Anyway, she said she didn't care and we were thrilled and she called us strange and I laughed.
I was in TMC waiting for my friends to show up for lunch today when, in the next booth, I heard a student and a lady I recognized as my old Spanish prof from freshman year discussing the evility (as Jenn would put it) of tests. "Why can't it just be like in Harry Potter," the prof said, "where they cancel final exams?" I have seen Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and I got the joke so I laughed and she heard me. She looked over and asked me, "Don't you think that sounds good?"
"I think it's a wonderful idea," I said.
"You kids would have to kill a monster first..."
"Yeah, we'd have to save the day or something," I agreed.
Then the girl said the coolest thing: "I'd rather stick my wand up a troll's nose than take my physics final!" And then they left.