Marbles

Do you remember Marble Day at school?

I do. What a great day. I waited all year for Marble Day.

Sure, you could play marbles any day, but not at school in the open and everything!
Look at me! I’m playing marbles Mr. 3rd Grade Teacher; and there is nothing you or anyone else can do about it.

Marbles had great names: cat’s eyes, steelies, pee wees, cobs, king cobs, crystals… but the best name was bullfudger. I’m sure there are a lot of other cool names for them too.

I carried my marbles around in a Crown Royal bag.
How cool was I? Pretty cool, I kid you not.

Even the rules had cool names:

Keepsies: you win the marbles used by your opponent.

Quitsies: allows any one to stop the game without consequence. You could either have “quitsies” or ”no quitsies“.

How cool is that? Pretty cool!

I guess “quitsies” and “no quitsies” are the unwritten rules for most things in life anyway.

Marriage: sometimes it’s quitsies and sometimes it’s no quitsies depending where you live and who your lawyer is.
War: usually no quitsies applies.
Work: sometimes quitsies; sometimes no quitsies, if you don’t get your final paycheck.
Sports: quitsies all the way. Just watch professional tennis to see what I mean.

note: keepsies applies to everything, and I’m calling double keepsies infinity just so it’s clear.