So...I'm playing Scattergories with my family. For those of you who don't know, basically you have a list of topics/categories (i.e. 1 "girls name", 2 "things in a purse/wallet" and so on...), then you pick a letter (let's say "J") and all your answers for the categories must start with that letter (Jane, Jewelry, etc.). You have a time limit to fill out 12 categories. Matching words with another player gets that word canceled out, and you do not get a point.
So, we roll a "W"...first category was "famous females". So I fill out "Whitney Houston" for the first one...
That's when things went wrong.
Notice the flaw in this picture?
We got to reading our answers, and my brother in law says "what did you get for 2, medicines/drugs?" and I proudly look at him and say "Medicinal Marijuana"....Thing is, if you get a 2 word answer with the same letter, you get double points.
He says, "That's great. But the letter is 'W'".
So I look at my list and see that, somewhere between 1 and 2, my brain switched gears entirely and assumed the letter was "M". I have no idea why, when, or how...but it happened.
And the worst part? After I filled out my list (and I was cocky too, since it's hard to fill out the entire list within the time limit), I went back to 1 and got to thinking how Whitney Houston might be a popular name, so I changed it to Wynona Rider...which is clearly not an M. And, again, this was after I just answered with all my M words.
I laughed. I laughed so hard through reading all my answers that tears were rolling down my face. It went something like this:
"For machines, I put Washing machine"
"Winnebago"
"Darn, I also put washing machine"
"Motorcycle" I would say sheepishly...and immediately burst into fits of uncontrollable laughter
After we finished reading our lists, I stood up and said, "good thing I have been doing my kegals--otherwise I might have pissed myself right now."
