Thursday, December 2, 2010

update: another game australians play

Cornering.  I learned it in the elevator yesterday, though forgot the name and tried to call it "crowding."  That's wrong.  Cornering is so named because it's when someone's standing in a corner (or, say, sitting in a corner on a bus) and you hurl yourself on to them and there's no where they can escape to because, well, they're cornered.  Point of clarification, though:  this game is not meant to be played with strangers.  I checked.  Which put my friends into hysterics.  "What if she hadn't asked?!" they cried.  "Can you imagine?  She'd have been throwing herself on strangers on the bus!"

No, no.  While ghosting is done with strangers, cornering is played only amongst friends.  Fair warning -- game on!

1 comment:

Laetitia :-) said...

You mean you don't do cornering when you're growing up? As in, squish your younger brother / sister in the corner when you're in the family car?

And then hope said brother or sister doesn't remember this game when they grow big enough to throw their weight around. Heh heh heh.

I'm the youngest of 4 girls - can you tell? :-)