Girl Games

I think I have no sense of shame when it comes to guys because I grew up playing games that encourage shameless behavior. My most favorite game ever growing up was Girl Talk. There were several incarnations of this beloved game but I owned two- one that I loved and one I would get the feeling that I was about to vomit whenever my friends wanted to play it. Let’s start with the one I loved, shall we?

Now I’m no expert but I think this was the first version of Girl Talk. It was played in traditional board game style and involved trying to find dates for the five cards you were handed. There were so many different types of people with many different interests. None of them were stereotypes like a pretty blonde cheerleader hating math homework but loving to surf. Or a geeky nerd with glasses whose extracurricular activities were AV and chess club. Your job as matchmaker was to bring these two souls together to create the perfect date using a highly advanced method of putting the two cards into a little box connected to the radio. The box would tell you what happens when someone asks someone else out on a date. I really thought these two people were hooking up based upon what I had to say. My childlike (okay, 16) year old mind didn’t realize it was simply luck of the draw. There was a tape in that radio and when you stuck two cards in the machine the tape would start playing. So whatever “date” was on at that time was the one you got. There was no science involved. Quite like OK Cupid.

The other version of I had was Truth or Dare. This game makes me nervous. I don’t like peer pressure and I don’t like having to reveal my secrets. Most of the cards were dumb, something like “eat an entire tub of Cool Whip (uh, yeah) or telling everyone who you think is cute in art class. Unfortunately I would get the cards that say “call your crush and ask him out” or “wear your underwear on the outside.” These things made me nervous. And there was no way in hell I was called a SENIOR and telling him I liked him. When you didn’t do a dare, you got a zit sticker. I had a lot of zit stickers and to this day do not know why I ever bought that game.