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I remember getting together…

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I remember getting together with my sisters and a couple of our girlfriends from the neighborhood and going down into our basement to play. We’d set up the canned goods that my parents kept down there to play store, stocking, arranging, buying and selling. It was like playing house and setting up our little fantasy world. Nobody came downstairs and it was cooler down there on those hot days in Virginia (right outside of DC).

We hit the phony phone call…

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We hit the phony phone call stage at about age 10. Nothing nasty… just stuff like calling the same number repeatedly, asking for Jane or Mary. Then someone would call and say, “Hi. This is Mary. Were there any messages for me? I gave your number out by mistake.” I guess the big thrill was to see how angry we could make the person. But I was always afraid our calls would be traced.

Anyone want to discuss their…

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Anyone want to discuss their personal Snuffleupaguses (wasn’t it better when only Big Bird could see him?!)? I had an imaginary older brother named David who I remember saving assembly seats for in third grade. It wasn’t that I did much with him– it’s just that he was there, a comforting, understanding presence. Maybe he’s who I now talk to when I’m scooting through market aisles talking to “myself.” And while we’re on the subject– do kids have assemblies anymore?– the kind where the whole school comes in to sing or watch movies (God bless Jiminy Cricket– “I’m no fool, no siree, I’m gonna live to be 103. I play safe for you and me “cause I’m no fool”). We did the best “rounds–” not just Row, row, row your boat, but also White Coral Bells, and something about clocks that we all “ticked” in time. But I digress……

There was a small pond next…

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There was a small pond next to the junior high school. After school let out, whether we were in elementary or in junior high, we’d grab our ice-skates (with pom-poms!), out of our lockers and ice-skate on the pond. The boys would be playing hockey at one end and we girls would be going around in a circle, dodging the hockey pucks!

I grew up in Manhattan,…

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I grew up in Manhattan, in what is now known as SoHo, in a loft. On the floor of our house we had a hopscotch board. We made it out of tape. My grandmother and I put it down on the floor one day so we could play the game together. Maybe she was embarassed to play this game in a playground with me. She was in her mid sixties. Now I look at my mother who is in her mid sixties and don’t think it’s too old to play at all. When my grandmother did it when I was a kid I understood why she hid it, because she seemed so incredibly old.

I don’t remember it that…

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I don’t remember it that way. Each person got half the deck. Each person made their solitaire hand with only five piles in front of them. Then with the remaining cards, on the count of three, each would say spit and put a card down into the middle. Just like solitaire you would set up your hand and put cards up on those center piles until you each had nothing else to put up and then you would say spit and put out another card. There were a variety of variable rules. Should you use two hands to move cards? Use alternating black and red color scheme? and more … I don’t see what a blank pile would be?

Did anyone ever play a game…

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Did anyone ever play a game called SPIT? You had to make 5 piles and the first person to get rid of their cards would grab the smallest pile. this would go on until the person with no cards won. It’s a game of speed. My question – what are the official rules? Is there such a thing as a blank pile? Thanks in advance.