One of my favorite things at Christmas since 2001 is watching Tim open the package he gets from his parents. In addition to their real gifts, they send him the funniest random stuff that cracks me up. (Is this a good time to remind you that December is only four months away?)
This past Christmas, his gifts included this game. In the Pandemic Time, on the occasions people gather at Houndstooth Hall, we’re usually all pretty desperate to catch up on conversations and cook and stuff our faces, so we haven’t played it. But surely its time will come, and just in case, I even picked up a couple of extra kazoos at Cactus Music.
You draw a card and choose a song to play from either side. I haven’t opened the package of cards, but I’m hoping that for all the songs I won’t know, on at least one side will be a tune for boomers like me.
I have a feeling there will be abundant laughter when we finally do this. I hope we don’t play kazoo songs like we sing happy birthday at our birthday celebrations, because that usually sounds like a dirge. Maybe because by the time we get to cake and candles, we’re in a food coma.