Making a Connection
A couple of weeks ago I was finally inspired by a friend I had met at the unschooling conference we attended back in September. Rob and his family live in northern Illinois. I was impressed that he had taken the time to learn Yu-Gi-Oh to play with his youngest son. He spent several hours of the conference in the game room with the kids playing.
The kid and the wife had both bought decks of the World of Warcraft trading card game a while back and they had played on occasion. The boy was asking more and more to play of late. So, before he left for his Dad’s for Thanksgiving, I told him that when he got back he could teach me how to play and I even volunteered to take him to a weekly game night at a mall store in south county.
So, this past weekend I sat down and started learning. If you haven’t read one, the instruction manual that comes with these starter decks, isn’t worth didley squat. The thing is horribly ambiguous and expects you to know all about the rules of these games before you sit down to play. We fumbled our way through a couple of games over the weekend with minimal arguments over our interpretations of the rules.
Last night was the big night of playing out at the store. Due to the holiday and lack of space, a lot of people didn’t show up, so there was only 1 other person there. He was a pretty nice guy who helped us out a lot learning the rules better, giving us pointers on “building a deck”, and some etiquette along the way. We had a lot of fun being out together and learning. I’m glad I got the nerve to just do it and spend some more time with him. Thanks Rob.
