12.13.05

Category: dribblings

yesterday was mom’s birthday. debbie t. gave mom one of those 20Q games. i don’t know if you’ve seen one or played with one, but if you haven’t, you should know, that shit is evil. at one point, after it had guessed the word snowman, after asking questions that had NOTHING to do with snowmen, we stopped wanting to play. but you can’t stop playing.
because maybe it won’t guess the next word.
but it will.
and then kelly started to cry and she went home. shaking.
Popsicle started to refer to it as The Orb, as in, “jaimie, please. please take The Orb home with you so it won’t be in our house.”
we became paranoid. and we started not speaking the word aloud, so The Orb wouldn’t hear us. we would write down the word. and then, after more paranoia (“you guys, that truck’s been parked out there a long time, you think it’s got spy cams peeking at the paper?”
“well, we know it has microphones, it stands to reason it’s got spy cams rigged on our house.”
“put The Orb in another room while we decide what the word will be.”
“good idea!”) we finally laughed it off.
although, nobody turned their back on The Orb.

dad called debbie:
popsicle: debbie? this thing you bought laura? it’s crazy.
debbie: i know! we’re playing with ours right now too! ian picked Jesus as the word and it guessed angel! how weird is that?!
p: um well, we actually picked angel and it guessed…angel! how?! it didn’t ask a single question that had to do with angels!!!
debbie: i know! it’s weird! i…don’t think it’s evil?

anyway, that thing is crackazy. we should play!

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