When I was a kid, I spent quite a bit of time on buses on long trips back and forth to Brisbane for various extra-curricular events. While all the cool and hip kids passed the time away on their Nintendo Game Boys playing Tetris, Donkey Kong or Mario Brothers, I passed the time sleeping, trying to read a book or listening to a CD. If only my parents had known then what valuable skills I was missing out on, I might have been able to build a business case for the purchasing of one Nintendo Game Boy.

At first, you might not think that Tetris is the be all and end all. Certainly it can get to be a very frustrating and time consuming experience if your reaction times are slack and you have  little to no spatial awareness. Late last year, Leigh posted about how packing a moving truck isn’t that dissimilar to a game of Tetris. I remember her writing those words but can’t find the original post so you will just have to take my word for it that my memory is correct.

I’m finding that packing moving boxes is a similar experience. Good Tetris skills are essential otherwise you end up with all these gaps which are big enough to put something in but not the something that belongs in the box. I’m no Martha but I get extremely irritated if like cannot be packed with like. CDs MUST go with CDs or at the outset, DVDs. Books are not to be packed with CDs or DVDs because they are not electronic media. Kitchen goods under NO circumstances are to be packed with anything from any other room. So you can understand how packing all our stuff up to shift to our new house could get a little frustrating for me. I know I probably could be a bit more leniant on the packing rules but of course, then it makes the unpacking process at the other end that much more difficult.

Dammit! I knew I really did need that Game Boy when I was a kid.

August 30th, 2009 | Category: Ramblings |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL