Don't Leave a Message

The other night we found ourselves with a house full teenagers.  They announced it had been waaay too long since we'd gotten around the table and played any games so they decided that's exactly what they wanted to do.  Which was fine with us, since their usual pastime is raiding the fridge.

But instead of the usual repertoire of games we play, one of the kids said he had a new game for us to try and sent us to go get a bunch of scraps of paper and some pencils.

This little game night came with one very large consequence.  Instead of this game being fun recreation, it was more like a ghastly revelation. Low and behold we were publicly outed. Everyone there uncovered an awful truth about the Skillmans:

We stink at conveying a message.

I'm not sure what the game is called, you may have played it before but it's basically like playing "Telephone" except instead of passing a message on by whispering in someones ear, this game is played with paper and pencils.

It starts by writing down a quote or saying and then, at our house anyway, things quickly go down hill from there.  People take turns drawing what they read and then writing what they think got drawn.

Here's a sampling of three games we played:

Game One:

Mitchell wrote:

Mark drew:

I wrote:

(and not too shabby, eh!)

Peter drew:

Nick wrote:

Connor drew:

Chloe wrote:

Game Two:

Nick wrote:

Connor drew:

Chloe wrote:

Mitchell drew:

Mark wrote:

I drew:

Peter wrote:

and Game Three...

Connor wrote:

Mitchell drew:

Mark wrote:

I drew:

Peter wrote:

Nick drew:

Chloe wrote:

All fun aside, one thing is pretty clear:

If you call the house and whomever you wanted to speak to isn't home, DON'T LEAVE A MESSAGE, because chances are...the message we write down, is not likely to be the actual message you intended to leave.  

Do yourself and us a big favor...call back later.