Saturday, December 26, 2009

Aunt Millie's Millions

My mom asked for games for Christmas that we could play together as a family. I bought her this one called "Aunt Millie's Millions". It seemed slightly childish but still sounded fun. Last night we broke the game open. The idea is that Aunt Millie has died and you and all of her heirs are fighting for her possessions. You pick a character and then decide who they are and how they knew Aunt Millie. Accents are encouraged. When two people want the same item of Aunt Millie's they have to give a reason why they should be the one to recieve the item. All in the encouraged accents, of course.

Last night James was Wiggins, the butler, and Jake was Deke, who he said was related to Aunt Millie because she was his mother's sister's best friend's mom. Deke was also gay. And had a lisp. He said his own name "Zeke". Wiggins and Deke were both after the same item: golf clubs. Wiggins told a story about how he wanted to take his children golfing to show that he was a person outside of work. Deke then said something to this effect:
"Back when Aunt Millie was Uncle Millie, we used to go golfing, and we'd hit the balls into the holes. And she taught me how to get a hole in one. And it was while we were golfing that Uncle Millie came out to me and told me that he was going to have a sex change. And after that he had a sex change. And he taught me how to get the balls in the hole." All in his accent, and with all of us laughing. Then he was asked the question by the judge (who may or may not have been me), if Aunt Millie had ever scored with him. Maybe that was a little inappropriate.

In another battle, this time for a silver serving dish, Deke told a story about how he'd go to Aunt Millie's every full moon to drink tea, and they would use that dish to hold sugar. And during one of those visits he told Aunt Millie that he was gay, and she said that she still loved him. Then when asked how often he'd have tea with Aunt Millie he said "twice a week". I had no idea that there was a full moon twice a week.

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