Cards

You know what I miss? Playing cards. When I lived in VA, my friends and I played MAD cards. Our favorite game was Spades. Friday or Saturday or Sunday nights (or really, any night was a Spades night) we'd get together, buy some chips and whatever, usually beer or wine to help us man up and play the night away, and then we'd sit down at the card table and play for hours. Deal out the cards, hold your breath when you pick up your hand, search for those Jokers (the highest cards in the deck). We even made up our own house rules when we got bored with the way things were going.


And it wasn't just a friendly game either, we were serious. There were many long silences and dirty looks from partners (Spades is a partners card game) and god forbid there were any real partners there, we'd be getting REALLY dirty looks from them. But nothing came between us and the game. I think we even had several late nights playing on Christmas Eve!

When I was little, my grandparents would have family poker nights once a month, we'd have all kinds of snacks, usually some fabulous home-made southern BBQ, and we'd play old-fashioned 5 card draw, blackjack, 7 card stud, etc. My sister was the poker queen, I was the blackjack girl.

What the hell happened to friends getting together to play a game of good ol' cards?