The Game of Life

Yesterday, Zac couldn't wait for me to drive him to Target and let him spend his birthday gift certificate. He really had in mind an Indiana Jones Lego set to go with his other Indiana Jones Lego set, which has now been living, with all its little pieces, in our living room since his birthday party a week ago. Well, Target didn't have the kind he wanted, so he opted for board games. We came across "Life" and Zac said, "What's this game?"

Where do you start? I told him it was an old and very fun game that I used to play as a girl, so he decided that was the one he wanted. I also unfortunately mentioned that Uncle Dan was known for always sticking his wife in the very back seat of the car, along with any other female children he had.

We got home and set up the many, many pieces. The game board is configured differently now, but all the basic elements are still there. I noticed that the careers have gotten a very nice pay raise. We read through the rules and played one game, which Seth started, but abandoned when I had to read so many rules. Both guys thought it was hillarious to stick their wives in the backseat, just like Uncle Dan. I retired with 1.3 mil, after starting as a mechanic and decided to go back to school (for 50 K) to become a doctor. Hey, why not, if you can do it so cheaply?

Then Seth decided to join us. He opted for the career path like me and drew the Police Officer. This was terribly exciting, because the Police Officer can issue "speeding" fines of $5000 (!) for spinning a 10. And enforce he did. He chuckled a little, "Heh, heh..." every time he earned his speeding fines, salary or baby gifts. When we came to the fork in the road where you can choose to go back to school and up your salary, he adamantly refused to give up his officer-ship, even when told he could earn lots more money than the $40 grand he was pulling down. He was NOT giving up those speeding fines!

We had to stop the game, because we had been invited to the Zanders for dinner. So I suppose the game will continue after school today....