Is it a game?
The Water Fountain Game: get a drink without getting your face wet. The controller is the button, press it softly and the water doesn't come out high enough to drink. Press too hard and your finger gets tired. Variables: when the refrigeration unit comes on, or when a toilet nearby is flushed, the water pressure changes. Consequences: wet face, water up your nose. Embarrassing or uncomfortable, but not deadly (usually).
Walking Down the Street Game: move from point A to point B over uneven sidewalks, curbs, around other people, dog poop, and trash. The controls are your feet. Walk too fast and you lose control or balance; too slow and you're late for some appointment.
So, are these games, or are they life? All depends on your definition I suppose. I'm still not clear where I draw my lines yet.
posted by Unknown @ 6:18 PM
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I say yes to your first example. But calling it the Bubbler Game would be more fun.
Hee hee, reminds me of visiting my greatgrandma in La Crosse, WI: one of the 'big deals' was walking down the street as a giddy group of cousins to The Bubbler, as my greatgrandmother called it, to get a drink. I found it fascinating that it seemed to exist in a strange location for a drinking fountain, and it was this that accorded it the lore of a name of being The Bubbler. Then I went to college and realized this what simply a geographical linquistic deal. Anyway, so this very fond childhood memory incorporates both your games, John, and it was a game. We played it nearly every trip to greatgrandma's with much childhood-solemn pomp. :)
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