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Serious And Silly meet Naughty and Nice
and learn to play Kick The Can
One day, Serious and Silly were playing Hide and Seek. Actually, it was the 17,534th day
Serious and Silly had been playing Hide and Seek. But who’s counting? Which, of course, is a
whole other question.
So there they were, as usual, Serious once again trying to get the rules clear. Silly once again
being, well, silly.
Only this time, Silly clearly stepped out of bounds with this silliness thing, and did something
that could only be called naughty.
“That’s naughty,” exclaimed Serious. And so it was.
Naughty, it turns out, was with Nice at the time. Who immediately introduced everybody to
everybody else and proceeded to organize a game of Kick the Can.
And Kick the Can, as only someone as nice as Nice would know, is a game that would attract
Serious, Silly and especially Naughty, with whom Nice was. Because it’s like Hide and Seek,
the very game Silly and Serious had spent a lifetime playing.
And it’s just different enough to be a New Game.
In Kick the Can, the Can is Home Base. A different kind of Home Base, though. A kickable
one. A moveable, pick-up-and-throw-away-able kind of Home Base.
And just like in Hide and Seek, you hide and try to get back to the base without being seen.
And if IT sees you and tags you before you can get to the Can, you become a Prisoner and
you have to stay at the Can and do pretty much nothing. But if someone else can sneak in
without getting tagged by IT and kick the Can, everyone is free and gets to hide again and
IT has to be IT another round.
Oddly enough, everyone thought this would be fun.
So, guess who winds up being IT?
Serious? I don’t think so. By the time Serious got ALL the rules down, everybody else would
have found something else to play.
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