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Mancala saved my life!
Jan. 13th, 2004 09:38 pmWell, OK, not my life. Mancala saved me from getting some small scratches on my scalp, and maybe a bit of glass in my eye. What kind of title would that be?
I was at Ground, relaxing after the interview. Ground has a pile of boardgames (mostly missing pieces), and it turns out there’s a portable mancala board (with only 27 stones left). I learned this when a couple was playing on the couch next to the easy chair I was sitting in. I walked over to ask what rules they were using (made up, as it turns out), and the light bulb over my chair spontaneously exploded, showering the chair with glass fragments! If not for the bible in my hip pocket, that bullet would have gone right up my, um, well, anyway, it was the second intersection of mancala and glass that day (the first being the glass-covered game board at the office where I interviewed). If I were superstitious, I’d wonder what it augured.
I was at Ground, relaxing after the interview. Ground has a pile of boardgames (mostly missing pieces), and it turns out there’s a portable mancala board (with only 27 stones left). I learned this when a couple was playing on the couch next to the easy chair I was sitting in. I walked over to ask what rules they were using (made up, as it turns out), and the light bulb over my chair spontaneously exploded, showering the chair with glass fragments! If not for the bible in my hip pocket, that bullet would have gone right up my, um, well, anyway, it was the second intersection of mancala and glass that day (the first being the glass-covered game board at the office where I interviewed). If I were superstitious, I’d wonder what it augured.