Campfyre Stories

Spawn and I have a new game that we’ve been playing for a little while.  We only just named it "The Definition of Ten" because, frankly, it needed a name.

It’s pretty simple, really, and I’m sure that others play this same game, but unlikely they do it to the degree we do.  "On a scale of 1-10…" is how it starts, but it was defined when Spawn would answer (how hungry are you or how badly do you need to find a bathroom) before I had defined what 10 actually was.  "Don’t you want to know what 10 is?" I would ask and he would say yes, then, after he heard the definition of 10, he would bump his originally given number down by one.

So it has become a game of clever definitions of 10.  Examples include: "so hungry I would eat [least favorite food that he’s forced to eat on a regular basis - not by me]" [I need to pee so badly], just hand me a cup", [in reference to cold] "what are those penguins doing here?"

We have altered the game so that the definition of 10 is given before the underlying question (how cold is it, how hungry are you, how much do you like this) is asked.  That saves us the time of having to ask "But don’t you want to know what 10 is?"

We’re both pretty clever and witty and will take the extra few seconds to come up with something that will both get the other person wondering what the basic question is going to be and also maybe get a chuckle or at least a smile.  The best part, I think, is that we both win when we play because it’s not a competition, it’s just a way to get the other person to smile.