Pick a color, pick a number, and find out your future.Everyone spun until they were too dizzy to stand.Lying in the grass and spotting animals in the sky was free entertainment.Moving all your furniture around somehow felt like a brand-new room.Thump, catch, repeat, until someone inside told you to stop.A single deck of cards could fill an entire afternoon.A few lines of paper decided where you’d live, who you’d marry and what car you’d drive.The margins of your school notebooks turned into a full art gallery.Couch cushions, chairs and every blanket in the house became a castle.The family computer’s built-in games got a lot of use on rainy days.Trying to beat your high score on that tiny screen was strangely addictive.A little embroidery thread and a safety pin could keep you busy all afternoon.You’d go through all of them twice and still land on nothing to watch.With nothing else to read in the bathroom, everyone knew those ingredients by heart.
