Playing Around: How Do You...?

Let's face it, there's a way to play.  Whether it's the rules of the game, the strategies to win, or simply the way you manipulated your parents, siblings, or children to get what you want, how you do something is vitally important to its success--and to how much fun you have doing it!

For this version of playing around, think about one of the following items and write about it:

• What was your favorite game as a child?  Why?  What were the rules?  Did anyone cheat?  What was your strategy?  Try to narrate a piece of it for us?
• Did you have a way of getting what you wanted from your parents?  How did you do it?  If you have children, do they try the same things on you?  Does it work?
• Is there a certain way that you must do something that everyone else thinks is quirky?  What is it?  How do other people do it and how do you do it?  Why do you insist on your version?
• Is there a regional way to do something that you follow--a funny dialect, driving style, or eating habit?  Tell us how you do it and why?