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Games From the Backseat

One of my current joys in life is carpooling for one and a half hours every school day. This is due to Princess getting out of middle school, then Crash and Butterfly getting out of elementary school, then Princess needing to be to swimming. Monkey and Sleestack have miraculously learned to deal with it gracefully (this is where angels sing the Hallelujah chorus).

We also pick up two other kids after elementary school--let's call them Adorable I and Adorable II. They are THE BEST sports. Especially when Crash is in charge of the backseat games. Or someone hit and runs me and I chase them down. Or when someone has a messy diaper. I'm thinking if their mom reads this, their carpooling days may be over. Anyway, they all like to play a variety of games in the backseat, including mind games created on the spot by Crash.

Crash: Okay, pig is to bacon as cow is to what? One, two... (Adorable I has three seconds to answer.)

Adorable I: WHAT!?

Crash: Wrong. The answer is hamburger.

Adorable I: Okay. What!?

Crash: Like pigs make bacon and cows make hamburger.

Adorable I: Ooooooh.

Crash: Lizard is to amphibian as horse is to what? One...two...

Adorable I: Amphibian.

Crash: Wrong. Mammal.

Me: What? A lizard isn't an amphibian!

Crash: Oh yeah. Okay Adorable I, I'll give you that one. Your score is now, "Moron."

Me: Crash! You can't give someone a 'Moron' score--

Crash (ignoring me): Ready? Cloud is to water as rock is to what? One...two...

Adorable I: Dirt.

Crash: Bzzzt! Wrong. Lava...it's about liquid components.

Adorable I: Oh yeah.

Crash: Your score is still "Moron."

Ginger: CRASH!!

Crash: He wants to play, that's just the score.

I tune out at this point because Monkey and Princess are talking to me and Adorable I is actually getting some of Crash's cryptic questions right and seems to be taking it all in good humor. I owe the Adorables a truck or something when they get older.

For me the highlight was when Crash said: Bob is to small yellow stinging insect as Pop is to what? One...two...three!

The answer (which no one got) is: a little green ball you eat.

How does that work you might ask. Apparently, Bob starts with 'B' which sounds the same as "Bee" which is a small yellow stinging insect. Pop starts with 'P' and I suppose you can put the rest together.

To his credit, Adorable I ended up with a score of Advanced Novice. Personally, I think he's a genius because choosing to play this game is MUCH better than playing the Latin Roots game wherein Crash says things like "Auto Bio Arche's" and you have to figure out what he's saying in English.

(In case you're interested, Crash says, "Auto Bio Arche's" means "My life rules.")


Left to right: Crash, Adorable II, Adorable I (Princess has informed me with much giggling that--to her--Adorable I is the most adorable person on the planet.)
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