As I was driving around tonight delivering bags of cookies to people, I took advantage of the alone time and just started daydreaming and thinking about stuff. In particular, I took notice of now nicely decorated all the houses were, and thought back to when my sister and I were kids.
I thought I’d take this opportunity to tell you about a game my sister and i used to play ….It’s called “Christmas”.
When the both of us sat in the back seat of the car, I always sat on the passenger side, and my sister always sat on the drivers side. (The reason for that is because of another game we used to play, called “colours”. Let’s leave that for another post.:P).
Anyways, the objective of “christmas”, was to count how many houses we passed by that were decorated for Christmas – be it with lights, trees, gigantic snowmen, red/green spotlights, whatever. As long as you considered it decorated, you counted it. Yup, it was a complicated little game we had. Look out your window and count outloud. The only real rule we had was that only your window was allowed; not out the front or the back of the car, just your window. At the end of the car ride, the winner was whoever had counted the most. Fun, eh?
While I’m telling you about our old games, might as well tell you about the game called “colours” that I mentioned above. It was another complicated game: Look out your window, and say out loud the colour of all the cars that were passing by. Yup, that was it. Say the colour of the cars passing by. Now, notice above, how I said that I always sat on the passengers side whenever we got in the car? This was me being smart, and my poor little sister not knowing any better. I would always be leisurely naming colours of all the cars passing us on the right, or that we were passing, or in the best case, naming nothing cause we were in the right-most lane. At the same time, my sister would be frantically trying to sputter out and catch the car-colours of the oncoming traffic!! Needless to say, I usually won this game, and to this day, I still don’t think my sister knows why we developed that habit of where we always sat in the backseat of our car.
I was a mean, mean, sister (6) 
omggggg, I had noooooo idea! I always assumed we just happened to take on those seats the way people take on seats at the dinner table! I had never even THOUGHT of you sitting on the right side with minimal traffic! sneaky sneaky…
I miss playing christmas. The best was always coming across apartment buildings with lights. Or when the car would turn and you could see the other side of the street from your window.
can we play presents before i leave please?