I've mentioned that my family loves to get together to play games. So, with it being my birthday and all, several members of my family showed up to play cards. Tonight it was 'Hand and Foot'. It was silly for the rest of us to even try to play the game with my sister Talina there, since it's long been established that she sold her soul to the Hand and Foot devil and hasn't lost a game in so long that none of us can remember such a thing happening.
Tonight it almost looked like her deal with the devil had lapsed though, with Greg and my Dad kicking some major butt for most of the game. In fact, they were within 25 points of winning after the fourth hand (you need 15,000 . . . it's the closest I've ever seen anyone get without winning the game), so we had to play another hand. Which is when Talina's card-foo was whipped out and the stars aligned and she was basically dealt a perfect hand and her and David managed to come back from a 3,000 deficit to win the game. She sucks. (I unfortunately seemed to have made my dark deal for the game "Settlers of Catan", which I have never lost. But, my family rarely plays it, so that amazing winning streak hasn't helped me show off my Settlers superiority with my own family. Talina has a much more useful winning streak in place, as "Hand and Foot" is a family favorite.)
My Mom and I were the third team playing. We lost. Big. A lot. Possibly as much as anyone we've ever seen lose this game . . . and we've been playing it for decades. After the first hand we were a MINUS 215 points. It's shocking how poorly we did. You think with it being my birthday and all, we'd have had some luck, or at least people would've been nicer to us, letting us play through our hand before 'going out' and ending the round before Mom & I had been able to accomplish anything. Every single time. I'm still reeling by the sheer suckyness of our hands, our luck, our play . . . all of it. For anyone who's ever played it . . . my Mom got caught with her foot Every. Single. Hand. That's amazing. I didn't even think it was possible to suck that much. And yet we did.
I think I'm suggesting "Settlers of Catan" for next week's family game night. :-)
1 comment:
Hee, hee. It was worth you losing so bad to see Dad and Greg robbed of victory at their moment of triumph!
I ALMOST waited one hand to go out so that Mom could play her foot that last hand but that would have let Dad play his and that could have tipped the scales in his favor. I couldn't risk it! ;)
I just to make up for it, next time you want to play Settlers (which I have never won), I will agree to it. And next time we play hand and foot, we should put Dad on my team so that he will agree to play with us again sometime in the near future.
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