Now I’m just as into those German board games as Evan.Įvan and I started to play some good two player games on our own, and Evan even tried to teach my family some of the ones that would work with a larger group. And once I knew the game, I enjoyed playing those fancy board games quite a bit. Ironically, once that excruciating period of explaining the game ended, I often did quite well, and those games weren’t really too bad. But since I was trying to be polite, and since I had that glass of wine, I would just stay quiet and mentally decide that I would just have to lose the game. I would be supplied with a glass of wine, and someone other than Evan would explain some horribly complicated game. And I wasn’t very pleasant about it, considering that it was supposed to be a fun game.įor a few years, the only way that I could learn a new game was if we went over to another couple’s place. Evan would get 3 minutes into describing the rules of a new game, and I would be so confused that either we had to stop, or I had to be left alone with the instructions for 25 minutes to figure it out on my own. It turns out, though, I was not the greatest at learning new games. He was into European board games, the kind created by German Math professors. Who doesn’t like games? But I found out that my idea of Risk or Monopoly wasn’t exactly what Evan had in mind.
Evan loves board games, so when we were dating, he naturally asked me if I liked games.
