Stratego: Wedding edition

July 8th, 2008

Anxiety Level:

Nothing like organizing a seating arrangement to rehash who gets along with who. It all seems simple enough. You have an 8 foot table and you sit four people on each side. Woe to the person who walks into this nonsense with such a cheery disposition.

Going into this, you know families are crazy, not just their inter-tensions, but the many unique pecularities of different members. But this time, for added pleasure, you get to mix two of them! First there’s your Tia Cuca who’s got the bladder thing and needs to sit by the bathroom. Then these two have a bitter past so they gotta sit on opposite sides of the table. Who ’s back is facing who? Will they take offense? Don’t let these guys sit together because they’ll end up getting drunk, fighting and then crying arm in arm the rest of the night (Which I consider a positive).

Fine, after mixin’ and a matchin’ you finally get it down. Oh wait! You gotta do it 13 more times, and then go over the whole thing with tables instead of people. Man, I still think the whole thing would be easier if we had little soldiers and tanks. Then we could push all the guest-models around with sticks like in War movies.

Well, at least I know where I’m sitting. That’s right people, the table of awesome. (Patent pending)

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