This is a screenshot from WikiHow’s instructions on how to play Heads-Up Seven-Up in case you’ve never had the fun/pressure of playing it.
Did anyone else play Heads-Up Seven-Up in grade school? That game made me SO nervous. I mean, if you were one of the seven people up front who had to go around and choose someone’s thumb to push down (if you don’t know the game, that sentence fragment probably made zero sense), there were just so many implications.
If you picked a boy, clearly that meant you liked the boy right?
Or it meant you liked a different boy but didn’t want to give it away so you picked another boy.
But then what if that other boy thought you liked him?
So then you just pick a girl…and deal with her disappointment when she realizes it’s you, not the other cute boy up front who picked her.
That’s really a lot of pressure to put on second-graders.
But it doesn’t have anything to do with today’s post.
Really, this is just a post to give wonderful blog readers a heads-up that I may be a little scarce around here through the summer. There WILL be hilariously fun Gilmore Guys posts and giveaways every Friday and some other Wednesday guests now and then. And when I can, I’ll put up a Monday fun post.
But I’m deep in the throes of novella drafting and novel rewriting, with a couple July deadlines on the horizon and quite a few weekend trips. So out of necessity, I’m giving myself a little leeway on blogging this month and next. When I’m here, I’m here and when I’m not…well, chances are you’ll still find me lurking around Facebook or Twitter or lately even G+ and Instagram. Hopefully I will be back to full-speed blogging in August or September.
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Oh yes, we played that game every time there was “rainy day schedule” (aka, every time it rained, which meant for recess we had to stay inside…do they have that in Iowa or did you all just play inside?). And I think most kids cheated by putting their heads down…and looking at the shoes of whoever tagged them! It was always waaaaaay too easy for them to figure out who picked them!
What, am I a skeptic or something?? 🙂
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When it rained we had to stay inside and generally play organized games…like Heads-up Seven-up…or eraser tag! 🙂
Yes, there was probably a fair bit of cheating going on, I’m sure. LOL!
Heads-Up Seven Up. Sounds like a game southerners might play, but I never heard of it before now. 🙂 So yes, your fragment made zero sense. lol We played Ring Around the Rosie, Red Rover, Mother, May I, things like that.
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I know all those games. 🙂 I should’ve specified, Heads-Up Seven-Up is an indoor game…we played it on rainy days during recess or at the end of the day if we’d been good or something like that. Good times…
definite heads up 7 up game player here!!
For me, it was always the sitting with my head down that gave me anxiety.
What if no one picked me? Ever? Does that mean NO one liked? That I had no friends? that everyone thought I was ugly or weird?
And if I was picked, it probably was just a pity pick.
Dude, I had issues….
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Ohhhh see, you totally confirmed what I’ve been saying all these years…that game is just TOO pressuring. LOL!
Not in school – but in children’s church! Oh, the memories of that windowless basement room, with the schoolroom desks and the imitation Oreos! Ha!
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Imitation oreos…blech! Did you also have watered down kool-aid? Because imitation oreos just scream for watered down kool-aid.
Make the actual game