Bubble gum, bubble gum in a dish...

...how many pieces do you wish?



How Daniel and friends play it:

Everyone sits in a circle, feet extended into the middle of the circle. If you're out, you move one of your legs closer to your lap and out of the circle. If you're out again, you move the other leg, sitting cross-legged, and you're out of the game for good.



How we played it:

Everyone clasps their hands together. If you're out, you open your clasped hands and have two fists. If a fist gets out, you put that hand behind your back.

In both, the last person with something still in, wins.

I don't remember thinking ahead to manipulate the results by choosing a favorable number, but really, wouldn't that be the obvious way to play?

I had completely forgotten about this game until Daniel mentioned it, and it makes me wonder how many other small pieces of my childhood lurk in the recesses of my mind.

It also underscores the fact that I am now the parent of someone in grade school, which is a little scary.

What games did you play in elementary school?

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Ladyhawke

The bishop's diktat brought him some surcease
as, grinning, he denied them life as pair.
One padding softly in the darkened trees;
one pouncing swiftly over draughts of air.
Beastly consequence to crime well-mated:
mate to mate denied, so both were fated.
The tale confirms his cruel plan did succeed
until his death resolved the couple's need.
The story stops here: yet some still recall
how late at night she wept into wolf's pelt
and stroked its fur, and crooned, and murmured all
the feathery endearments that she felt.
For love to love survives despite all cost,
and spirit so transformed is never lost.