#280; Mattress Mayhem ~----~ #281; Misfortune Magnet

  David: This week’s comics remind me strongly of a game my brothers and I used to play called ’avalanche’. It involved one person at the bottom of the staircase, with the bottom door closed - and everyone else on the overlook above. The person at the bottom would try to get to the top, and everyone else would use the force of gravity to intervene. We never advanced all the way to mattresses, but I do have fond memories of hurling tightly coiled sleeping bags down upon younger siblings, careening them into the morass of spent pillows and blankets awaiting at the bottom of the stair. I think our parents were grateful when, later in life, we got a video game system and began killing one another in the civility of the virtual world. ______________________________________________________________________ Liz: My parents have one of those carpeted staircases that has a sharp, 90-degree angle turn before reaching the bottom, so we never thought to play anything like that. Plus everything at ’the museum’ as relations called it, (I’m not kidding) was behind glass (only 3% kidding). We played ’sit and don’t touch the decor’ instead. This game has many levels, as there are many rooms. It’d be fun to see you and your brothers adapt your avalanche game to my ‘watch out for that wall’ stairs. Quite a fun game to see indeed. Game over on the touching things, though. I can tell.