Learning the Hard Way

January 17, 2009 in Uncategorized with 7 Comments

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7 Responses to “Learning the Hard Way”

  1. Hillary in KS January 17, 2009 at 7:54 pm #

    I don’t get this. Why don’t I get this?

  2. raincoaster January 18, 2009 at 4:44 am #

    You never cheated against a five-year-old to make sure you’d win? You’re a nicer person than Grandpa then!

  3. TeleriB January 18, 2009 at 1:54 pm #

    You mean it’s not about white privilege and US race relations?

  4. Hillary in KS January 18, 2009 at 2:46 pm #

    But, TeleriB, they’re both black. I wondered if it was about ageism…

    But Raincoaster, I think you’re right. I think I’ve done that once or twice to end the neverending game of Candyland. ;)

  5. raincoaster January 18, 2009 at 6:36 pm #

    Huh? No, it’s not about race relations or ageism. It’s about cheating to win. I can see that I need to start a poker club and invite all of you people who are nice than me to play; I’d make a fortune!

  6. TeleriB January 19, 2009 at 10:05 am #

    Except that in card games, you don’t usually exhort the losing person to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps.” That particular cliche doesn’t make tons of sense in the context of a card game. In a card game that’s a metaphor for the unfairness of life, though, it fits perfectly.

    We could embrace the power of ‘and.’ Grandpa is clearly cheating at cards, and perhaps making a grown-up joke and teaching a lesson all at the same time.

  7. raincoaster January 20, 2009 at 11:05 am #

    TeleriB, you obviously haven’t played euchre with as many winnebago-driving Rotarians as I have. It’s their response to virtually any situation, looking at the younger, healthier people and telling them to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps.” It’s why I don’t hang around the bocce pits in the park anymore.