the game

have you ever had such an experience where after you had crossed all hurdles you run straight into an invisible wall?

it happened like this... we just had dinner. nobody has got any plans for the night. so one bright german girl suggested earnestly that we should all play a game after dinner. all in the name of 'family' bonding she said. everyone readily agreed as nobody wants to be seen as an antisocial housemate. we thought finding a game that everyone knows would be a problem, but it wasn't. we thought that language would be a problem as not everyone can speak french fluently. but eventually it turned out that it wasn't a problem either.

so after dinner, we gather eagerly around the dining table to play a game that everyone knows. it doesn't matter whether you come from japan, singapore, germany,mexico, brazil or russia. cos name of the game is - Monopoly. the streets are different but the idea is the same.

Voila! we have decided upon a game. just when we are about to start on the game, the bright german girl exclaimed,"the board is in Dutch. the chance cards and the community chest cards are in german. the title deeds are in french.the french title deeds dun tally with the dutch board."

and so our night ended abruptly.


"usually the problems that you anticipated aren't really problems, its those that you can't anticipate that will become real problems."