if you can’t beat them…

…join them.

I’m gonna try to put together my very own model! I’ll let you all know how it goes.

Whenever I have been to Bridgetown Hobbies and Games (which is an extremely cool place, btw) I have always been the only female in the place (except when my mom and I go together, but then we’re the only two). Today when I went with Trevor was no exception. While I was looking at games, I was privy to a conversation between one of the store employees and a customer he was explaining a game to. They were lamenting their wives’ lack of interest in games, but it quickly became clear from both sides of the conversation that their wives did have games they liked to play, they just weren’t usually the same games their husbands liked to play, and they didn’t usually want to play them quite as often or for quite as long. This is exactly what goes on between Trevor and I, however listening to their own stories about their respective wives, I started to feel a little better. After all, sure, Trevor could have done better. He could’ve found a Felicia Day gamer-girl extraordinaire (although how many of those actually exist is in doubt).  But he also could have done a lot worse – at least I love board games and card games, and I’ll try almost any new game at least once.

In the middle of these two guys’ conversation, I shouted across the room to Trevor about a game we were looking for that I couldn’t find, and he made another comment back to me about a different game he thought I’d like. They both stopped talking and looked at me in amazement. They seemed briefly mystified by me, and I got the distinct feeling that, though their wives play with them sometimes, they certainly aren’t going to the store with them and pointing out different games they’d like to try. And so I feel a little better now about Trevor and my’s varying degrees of interest in gaming. Yes, any video game where I’m expected to master walking forward and looking around/aiming simultaneously is going to mystify me. But, I’ll try your crazy Call of Cthulu board game with nine million game pieces and cards and thingamajigs, and hey, I just found a model of a B-25 I want to try to build if you will help me.

Progress!

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