Blog Number 186

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

We have been playing a lot of board games and card games lately (the cable is turned off, remember?).  Anyway, today we made a trip to Toys "R" Us and perused the games section.  There are plenty of new games out there and most of them are tied to a TV show or movie (especially SpongeBob Square Pants and Pirates of the Caribbean).  None of the new games seemed that exciting (once you got past the fact the SpongeBob was on the box) so we settled on some tried and true classics.

1. Scrabble
2. Yahtzee
3. Skip-Bo

We do have Junior Yahtzee but it is not quite the same as standard Yahtzee.  Also, we do have Uno which is similar to Skip-Bo so we are not stretching very far with these games I suppose.  After we picked out our games, we walked through the rest of the store.  The Legos section was impressive as they had many displays of all the Lego sets you could purchase.  I don't even want to think about what it would cost to build the Millennium Falcon!).  I was surprised at some of the DVD’s they had for sale.  Nothing rated R really but some really questionable PG-13 movies for sure.

We finally made it to the front of the store and got in line to pay for our games.  The line was not that long and we were in no hurry but the lady from the electronics section motioned us over indicating that we could pay for our stuff at her register.  The only thing they sold in her section were video games (X-box, GameCube, PlayStation, etc.).  I wondered to myself as she was scanning our items if there wasn't some sort of unwritten rule that said you could not buy board / card games in the electronic games section.  I mean, these industries are in direct competition with each other really if you think about it.  She did ask for my phone number (this must be some sort of policy at Toys "R" Us as the wife remembered them always asking this when we were in Indiana).  I sort of questioned her as to why they would need my number and she (not wanting to have this argument) suggested just giving her any number.  Then I wondered why I had to give her a fake number, why couldn't she just make a number up herself?  She gets numbers all day long probably and would be much better at fake numbers I would think.  At any rate, I gave her a number that was 1 number off of my own just for good measure.

Well, it is time to break in the Skip-Bo set, until next time...

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon