Comments | evelynne: Do kids these days do stuff like this?

evelynne

Do kids these days do stuff like this?

Feb 20, 2018 11:28

I had a sudden remembrance of a game I used to play with my cousins when we were all under the age of 10. We called it "New York Information Center". Stacey had a couple of bright pink Barbie phones and she and Billy also had an encyclopedia, so we would pretend we were getting phone calls on these pink phones from people who needed, you know, ( Read more... )

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daphnep February 20 2018, 22:00:02 UTC

Awww, I love that game! It sounds super imaginative and also likely to have been hilarious. And no, it’s not familiar to me.

We played lava, and also I remember hanging off the couch upside down, long enough to make the room “reverse”, where you start to see the floor as the ceiling and you’re floating off the ground on a weird couch stuck to the ceiling...and then you can toss things to the other person (or roll something across to them) and it gets all wacky and funny.

And man, that was not on drugs.

evelynne February 21 2018, 15:19:23 UTC

I don't have any specific memories of playing this "reverse" game, but it sounds like something I must have tried and I want to try it NOW. I love things that mess with my perception. Getting somebody to play it with me and roll the ball might be difficult until I have some younger guests. :)

coercedbynutmeg February 21 2018, 21:53:50 UTC

We used to play "moms on the phone" where we'd call each other and every fifteen seconds say something like "Billy! Get out of the washing machine!" or "suzy! quit lighting your sister on fire!" or whatever. We didn't even have much of a conversation, it was just yelling at our imaginary kids to behave.

And we'd play "the floor is lava." And we'd play store.

When Jason was little he would set up a mock carnival and his sisters would give him their entire allowance in order to play his carnival games that they either couldn't win or they'd win garbage prizes like a random Lego brick.

evelynne February 22 2018, 05:09:32 UTC

"moms on the phone"

Oh. My God. LOLOL!! That is a genius game!! I'm snort-laughing.

The mock carnival is also genius. Did he manage to keep the money, or did they demand it back?

coercedbynutmeg February 22 2018, 16:51:52 UTC

He got to keep the money!

Also, when they were little, they'd play Mass, and Jason would be the priest, Sara would be the cantor, and Mary would be the person who carries the incense. Jason would make a sermon on the importance of giving lots of money to the Church, and the girls would willingly hand over their allowance, which he would also keep. (I don't know if this was a game they played frequently, or just once or twice until the girls got wise to it.)