Kintropy In Action

The other night, Gabriel, Robert, and I went out for a late dinner at Red Robin. Gabriel and Robert were in the middle of some silly play with the triangle ad piece on the table. It was a spaceship or something. I started coloring the whale on Gabriel’s placemat with checkers. I showed it to Gabriel and called it the Checker-Backed Whale.

Gabriel smiled, and Robert looked thoughtful at it.

Gabriel and I have been playing a new card game called The Storybook Game by Fundex. It is a game where the players collaborate to make a story using cards to move the story.

So I said to Gabriel, "Once upon a time, there was a Checker-Backed Whale…. Your turn"

He cocked his head at me and said, "Once upon a time, there was a Checker-Backed Whale who went to the surface and met a seagull."

Ok, the idea of the game is to repeat what everyone else says; then add on.

I looked at Robert expectantly. He smirked:

Once upon a time, there was a Checker-Backed Whale who went to the surface and met a seagull. The whale said, "I’m bored."

The seagull said, "I know a game we can play on your back. Since it is checkered, let’s play chess."

The whale said, "Ok."

The seagull said, "Don’t move." They played chess.

So this went on for a while, and the whale felt dehydrated. "I would like to move," he said.

The seagull said, "You can’t. You will ruin the game."

So the whale sat there and died.

So the moral of the story is: there are more things to life then just playing games such as moving, eating and breathing."

All I could say after I laughed was, "Aesop has nothing on you, Robert."

--Mom