12/18/2023 0 Comments Rules pinochle card gameOne of the activities most easily adapted by the family was the insane card game that eventually turned into a family tradition. When the castaway was eventually rescued, I imagine that whatever doctor that treated him told the castaway’s family to help the castaway slowly adjust to life back in the civilized world by doing activities common to the castaway’s island environment. It was an inside joke that the two shared. He called it Pee-Knuckle, after having to urinate on his hand from a particularly nasty jellyfish bite he received while rescuing his wife from the ocean floor where she lived. After exhausting all the card games he knew, somewhere around lonely year nine, the castaway developed a game that he could play as a team with his wife, a conch shell he named Gloria, and their neighbors, Bill and Eliza Coconut. I believe Pinochle originated from a castaway on a remote island and his only friend, an incomplete deck of playing cards. I will accept ownership of my actions despite any of the cloud of ridiculousness surrounding the game or implied emotions of the night in question.įor everyone born after 1970, Pinochle is a game using playing cards and governed by rules created by a crazy person. Any frustration around the night’s events were brought on only by my poor self-esteem and had nothing to do with a game that has probably been used to effectively torture prisoners in Guantanamo. A ten-minute tutorial given to me by three people simultaneously before being expected to play the game masterfully should have been more than enough to ready my troubled mind. The fact that this was harder than understanding baseball in Chinese (Cantonese), was all on me. Before I get all wound up and start my super-charged narrative about a horrible misunderstanding, I want to make one thing perfectly clear: I take responsibility for all that went wrong and it was MY inability to master the four thousand chaotic rules of this particular card game while suspending my sense of natural reason and order. Okay, I can already feel myself getting upset. The helplessness of not being able to speak the language and the realization that you are being disarmed, shut down and possibly taken advantage of is the same feeling I encountered on the night I attempted to learn Pinochle. It’s the idea of all logic and order that you have come to expect becoming upset in a way that makes you feel like you’re losing your grip on reality that is the killer there. Instead of the large-lettered word reading “dinosaur,” it reads, “Tuesday.” Terrifying, it really is. By the end, the man accepts his madness and opens a child’s picture book to a picture of a dinosaur. Over the course of the episode, the man’s perception of English slowly became rearranged. Most people may not find it terrifying, but this particular episode illustrated one man’s slipping from the normalcy of the world he lived in to a situation where he was completely helpless. There was an episode of the Twilight Zone that terrified me.
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