# When was the last time you played? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862 "2006-07-17T15:46:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/21 "2006-07-18T17:13:56Z")
If we’re excusing tickle fights and such, the last time I played was, I think, late April. It was the last production night of the season for one of the media orgs where I’m an exec, and we had a watergun fight, I hid the executive director’s chair, we had pizza and made fun of people’s moms. The chair thing was not the first iteration of that, and the “your mom” stuff is rampant throughout the student media department here (except for the paper, and that’s gonna change, I hope), but the watergun fights are not a weekly thing. Then, a week or two later, we had a football game. ---
**Author:** ![Tortuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@Tortuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tortuga)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/22 "2006-07-18T17:20:02Z")
Does playing with your dogs count? I play tug of war, chase, frisbee, silly boogers, roll around and generally act like an idiot every day. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/23 "2006-07-18T17:26:15Z")
> [@TheBoneyKingofNowhere](#): > > Does MarioKart count? The original, on N64. Played last weekend with two of my buddies, one a lawyer, the other a pharmacist. _Ahem_ The original is on the SNES. The N64 one is the second in the series. Both are great games. ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/24 "2006-07-18T17:30:10Z")
Mrs. Call works for a liquor producing company. One day she came home with a bottle of vodka that had been recently reworked by marketing. The company handed a bottle to everyone in the office to celebrate/promote the brand’s new look. She put the bottle on the table without much thought. That evening, after my brother popped by, the three of us are sitting around the table in “whaddaya wanna do” mode. I forget whose idea it was, but the suggestion was proffered: What if we drank that bottle then tried to perform some dexterity-required skill. Like what? Oh, I don’t know, how about “Operation” I snuck into the kid’s room, grabbed the game, checked the batteries - then started pouring the screwdrivers. When we finally got to the game it was so much fun! It devolved into whoever was performing an “operation” having to endure taunts of the other two’s bad imitations of the buzzer. After that we thought, “Now what?” Why, Jenga of course… what a hoot. To this day “Drunken Operation” is tabled whenever “whaddaya wanna do” is asked - but we’ve not been able to recapture the magic of that time. ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/25 "2006-07-18T21:43:01Z")
Nah, I don’t think video games count. I played tiny keychain Mouse Trap (the board game) by myself last night, though. It was cute. ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/26 "2006-07-18T22:11:33Z")
Man, I was just trying to think how long its been since I just played. two things spring to mind, and I’m paraphrasing now; Calvins dad, from Calvin and Hobbes, made some remark along the lines of “You can still play when you’re a grownup, but you have to call it sport, and it cant be fun” And Principal Skinners “Playtime” “Sort out these, Bart. Make a game out of it; see how many you can do in an hour, then try to beat that”. Thats about all the play I can manage. Doing menial shitty tasks at work, and trying to do them quicker than last time. Or “sport” which isnt play as everyone takes it so fucking serious. Playing games with friends now comes down to the playstation, and going by the OP, that doesnt count. I would just love a game of catch, or tig. I would absolutley love a game of Hide and Seek. Or a water pistol fight… this is the most depressing thread I’ve ever read. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/27 "2006-07-19T14:55:19Z")
I must admit, every now and again, for 5 or 10 minutes at a time, when nobody else in my house (my wife and kids) are around to see… …I still play with my little GI Joe figures from the '80s 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/28 "2006-07-19T15:11:30Z")
> [@cowgirl](#): > > Ultimately we were out there, digging for treasure through the slats in the deck with chopsticks, until it got too dark to see. In total we extracted another arm (from a different set than the first two), a nose (from a stuffed animal of some sort), pens, clothespins, pieces of mirror, a CD, $0.35, and numerous lighters. Yeah, but what was the CD? ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/29 "2006-07-23T01:03:26Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Yeah, but what was the CD? My WAG is: _The Eagles’ Greatest Hits_. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/30 "2006-07-23T05:24:36Z")
> [@TheBoneyKingofNowhere](#): > > Does MarioKart count? The original, on N64. WTF? The original on N64? I’m not even in my junior year of college and I played Mario Kart on the SNES before I had pubes. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/31 "2006-07-23T05:25:08Z")
> [@Viridiana](#): > > Nah, I don’t think video games count. What about playing doctor? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/32 "2006-07-23T07:39:23Z")
I’m in karate class with a bunch of little kids (yeah yeah, just like Kramer…) and we play “Simon Says” a lot. I RULE at that game. I play hide-and-seek with my dog sometimes when it’s rainy outside. I got a little plastic do-dad toy from some grand opening thing I went to the other day. It was a little ball that you put on a flipper and shot into a basket. Very hokey and cheap. I put it together and played with it for about 10 mins. As for doing something cool like tag or a snowball fight with my friends…sadly, no. We are still stuck on making a lot of raunchy jokes about having sex with eachother, eachother’s SO’s, eachother’s moms and so-on. We haven’t reverted to pre-pubescence yet - we’re stuck in adolescence. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/33 "2006-07-23T13:35:41Z")
A few years ago I was up at my local pub. I was chatting with an long time lady friend of mine. I can’t remember why, but for some reason we had to go out to her car. While we were in her car, we got the giddy notion to trade shirts and walk back into the bar. We were wondering if anybody would notice. Nobody did but it made me and my friend giggle for what seemed like hours. ---
**Author:** ![LucyInDisguise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucyindisguise/32/18064_2.png) [@LucyInDisguise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LucyInDisguise)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/34 "2006-07-23T19:22:56Z")
> [@jali](#): > > When was the last time you played? Been about a half an hour, I reckon. Started innocently enough - 'bout an 90 minutes ago (+/-), the Youngest DaughterInDigusise was on the back deck bitching about the heat. I dunno. Kinda depends on how ya look at it as to whether or not that is a bad plan around me. I did manage to cool her off a tad. Nahhh. I don’t use cups. Or jugs. Or pans. I rule the water supply here! [I use the hose …] \<\\> “Running into the house will not save you. That’s just where you will get trapped and soaked in Lucy’s wrath!” \<\\> (… As I type this, MamaInDisguise, Youngest DaughterInDigusise, SIL, all 3 of the DisguisedGrandkids, Both DawgiesInDisguise and all the KittiesInDisguise are moping up some 200+ gallons of water in the kitchen, living room, hallway and bathroom, all expended in the best no-holds-barred water fight we’ve had in at least 3 weeks.) Anybody got a good way to get the water outta this keybosdir;alsd??? ilvl/sfvaE a;aselifv’z t41z24358.z ba4t4 p@#$#QwFE"fzs4tj[s34po2q234aaaaahhhhshitIknewIshouldn’thavegivenupthehose!!! hmmmm.space.bar.doesn’t.seem.to.be.working…drip.drip.drip.drip. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/35 "2006-07-23T22:10:40Z")
I spent most of the afternoon playing Dungeons and Dragons - does that count? ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/36 "2006-07-24T16:14:01Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > My WAG is: _The Eagles’ Greatest Hits_. Volume 1 or Volume 2? ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/37 "2006-07-24T21:52:04Z")
Friends and I still play every once in a while, but we have succumbed to the desire for bigger and better toys. Let’s take squirt gun fights, for instance. We still have them, but they have long since escalated to include guns like [mine](http://www.isoaker.com/armoury/soaker_stats.cfm?soakerID=cps2000). It’s so slow to pump back up to full that a sidearm is a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/38 "2006-07-24T21:59:09Z")
I play kickball every Monday after work in Grant Park with some friends. True the beer afterwards is the prmiary motivation but kickball is a blast as well. Well, most Mondays, stupid work grumblegrumble. ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/39 "2006-07-25T10:51:30Z")
We play “Floor is Lava” at work mm ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862/40 "2006-07-25T13:46:59Z")
Some friends/coworkers and I once found ourselves around midnight in a huge warehouse filled with pallets stacked with all kinds of product. Somebody mentioned how it would be a great place to play paintball or laser tag. Since we had supplies for neither we broke into two teams and played with the simple “point at your opponent with your index finger (thumb up) and yell BANG!” and play on the honor system. We played till 4 a.m. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-played/364862.md?page=3)