Games People Play
One of the things I like about my current job is that I spend enough time in the home office to get to know the people here–all of whom are very good to work with. They’re a fairly social lot, and there are occasional group lunches and such. Today was a combination baby shower/going away party for one of the women who works in the home office full time. It was a potluck lunch (with really good food!), with baby shower games. Word games and puzzles go over well in a crowd of technical writers, so overall, it wasn’t bad as baby showers go.
The first game, however, was bad. Now, there are some bad baby shower games out there–guessing the expectant mother’s current waistline, the infamous “toilet paper baby,” and identifying (presumably by the inclusions and/or smell) various candy bars that have been melted and poured into diapers. Nevertheless, the baby-food tasting contest is the bottom of the barrel, in my opinion. That’s right; five unmarked jars of bland, earth-toned, odd-smelling, pureed stuff, which the participants try to identify by taste. Nobody was very enthusiastic about that game, even after it was announced that there was a prize for the winner. (Whatever the prize is, it’s not worth it, I whispered to the person sitting next to me. She agreed. And second prize is two weeks in New Jersey.) I didn’t even bother to taste; I guessed by smell and color, and that was bad enough. (Apparently, old ketchup, algae, and lumpy paste are not actual baby food flavors. Go figure.) It’s not hard to understand why babies spit that stuff out when you try to feed it to them.
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