Sunday, July 18, 2021

Games People Play


Go up to a stranger or someone you know.


Ask them to play Rock, Paper, Scissors,


and more than likely they’ll do it with you.


What for, they may ask? Ask them if they


remember who it was that first taught them


to play the game? No one alive that I know


will be able to say. It’s just one of those


hand-is-quicker-than-the-eye games humans


tend to play when there are choices to be


made. It’s all too silly I know. Wonder what


Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon played before


paper or scissors were invented? It was too


early to flip a coin—heads I win; tails you


lose. Way back when, see this, my club is


bigger than yours may have come into play.


You’ll do what I’ll tell you to do. Capisci?


For a brief moment in time the world became


a more peaceful place when paper an scissors


came to be. Then unfortunately, spears and


arrows came along, and everything went to hell.


We digress from there.


This is what happens when you have a world


of time to preoccupy the mind.



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Chris Hanch 7-18-21 

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