Games we played that our kids never will.

I had some strange dream last night.... I know shocker! However, it got me thinking about games I played as kids that my kids will never play nor really understand. I know each generation goes through this with the change in our society and so forth.

We used to play lay-away all the time. We would use the clothes or closet of my neighbor's house and literally act like we were putting items on lay-away; making payments and so forth. I know that my kids have no idea what this is. Another game that I had at one point thought maybe the neighbors and I made up was "No bears out tonight." It was like a duo tag team that were the bears that would try to get the group walking around the backyard in the dark singing the "no bears are out tonight....." song. I think I finally met someone else that actually played that as well.

We also used to play a game called murder in the dark. Everyone was assigned roles secretly: detective, murderer, victims 1 through whatever. Then with the lights out the detective had to figure out who the murderer was before they got killed. Kind of morbid huh.

We actually played cowboys and Indians (I was always an Indian, proudly). Now our culture has changed so much that the concept is lost on our kids. In someways I guess that is good. We also played "V." Yes, after the series that was on TV. Hide the thimble, hot and cold, red light - green light, red rover and so forth.

One pivotal game in all the girls life was MASH. It helped us imagine who were we going to marry, where we were going to live, and how many kids we would have. I remember playing it for hours at sleepovers. Maybe I need to have my girls over some night and play it again. With the exception that I have to marry Sean....LOL.