Me and my friends went to the Uni's cafeteria, armed with a few books, a news articles and a deck of cards to play. I was excited to find someone with the same interests that i have. We worked together on the crossword and were playing some gin rummy rounds. We were new enough to be in our best behaviour, back then. I don’t even know who can, only that we were having a nice time. As our friendship progressed. Nonthless, card games tended to get heater .
Have you ever noticed that sometimes one player gets on a hot streak when playinggin rummy especially? Whoever won that day would win in a row, like, five games. It wouldn't be near, either. "HOW could this be! "The loser cried. "It's like I can't eve do something, so you've got gin already! The one who wins then felt grievience because the losing opponent felt bad and sudden everybody of us felt uhhappy. As it turns out, the opposite of fun is card games between two intensely competitive and emphatic individuals.” No more credits card!”. In frustration, we put our hands up. “Its not worth the efforts! The play-cards lived in the cabinet for a long time, tucked away with the puzzles and a dusty backgammon set. And instead they told us to sit at home. For our ninty days. I proposed the concept of playing a nice little game of cards back in March. When Citi's first published the stay at home order. We were, after all, indoors. What better game time? Fast forward to a few hours later, when one of us may or maynot have stormed! shouting, “I am not playing this again!”. So i had an idea , one day. “what if, the winner buys the losing one a drink? It did acts a charm.As it turns out I'm competitive as well as frugal. “loser gets a reward” rescued us from ourselves, and again made card games more fun. Winner receives glory, loser receives goods. From time to time, we change the prizes-we could buy dinner eachother.These are all things that we would take turns to cover anyway, but that is the gesture that counts.
I learned after sharing this story with friends that we are not the only ones making our own rules around sports. "My friend and I have no trouble playing games together.Yet if we play with a bigger group we can't be on the same side, "one friend admitted.’She is too competitive, so i can make a wrong mistake, or don’t know the answer, she gets so mad about it-far more mad than shes teaming up with someone.” Laments another friend, “We used to have holiday game nights but we are no longer, because they cheats when we play with them. We will take a strategic 'bathroom break' so we can try to see what cards you hold or hide under the board the monopoly money. Every one of his brothers does the same. They're powerless.'
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