Cellar Scribblings

[Kelda]

eek....

[CellarDweller]

Ok, I've been away from the forums since 12:15 or so.  I had to attend a training meeting for work until 3:15, and then go to the gym......but lemme tell ya what happened in the meeting.

The facilitator does an exercise to show us how important communication in the workplace is.  He splits us into 3 groups of five, and gives us instructions on how to play a card game called "Slap".  Once we open the directions, we are no longer allowed to talk.

The instructions stated that a deck of cards are dealt out to everyone, face down.  Then, one by one, we flip our cards over in one pile in the center.  When a queen pops up, we all try to slap it.  The person who slaps first, gets the pile of cards.  The came goes on until someone ends up with all the cards. 

I was so determined to win this game.  The cards are dealt, and we start flipping them.  The first queen pops up, and I slap the pile.   More cards go out, a queen pops up, and I slap it.  I now have a majority of the cards.  One of the coworkers is looking at me wide eyed, at how determined I was.

Suddenly, the facilitator taps my shoulder, and I have to leave the group, and join another group.  Still no talking.

The cards are dealt, a small pile of cards builds.  A queen pops up, I slap it, and take the pile.  Everyone else looks at each other, and starts to deal.  A second queen pops up, I slap it, and take the pile.  They all look at me like I'm crazy, and one of the waves her finger at me.  It turns out, this group had a set of rules that state you slap the "king", not the queen.  I start to laugh out loud.

I sit down, open up my spring water, thinking about how quickly I was slapping these cards in an effort to win.  The facilitator asks "What did you learn from this experiment?"  I get a mouth full of water, and a woman looks at me and says:

"That some people play more aggressively than others!"

I started to laugh, getting spring water all over the boardroom table.

[Kelda]

Ok, I've been away from the forums since 12:15 or so.  I had to attend a training meeting for work until 3:15, and then go to the gym......but lemme tell ya what happened in the meeting.

The facilitator does an exercise to show us how important communication in the workplace is.  He splits us into 3 groups of five, and gives us instructions on how to play a card game called "Slap".  Once we open the directions, we are no longer allowed to talk.

The instructions stated that a deck of cards are dealt out to everyone, face down.  Then, one by one, we flip our cards over in one pile in the center.  When a queen pops up, we all try to slap it.  The person who slaps first, gets the pile of cards.  The came goes on until someone ends up with all the cards. 

I was so determined to win this game.  The cards are dealt, and we start flipping them.  The first queen pops up, and I slap the pile.   More cards go out, a queen pops up, and I slap it.  I now have a majority of the cards.  One of the coworkers is looking at me wide eyed, at how determined I was.

Suddenly, the facilitator taps my shoulder, and I have to leave the group, and join another group.  Still no talking.

The cards are dealt, a small pile of cards builds.  A queen pops up, I slap it, and take the pile.  Everyone else looks at each other, and starts to deal.  A second queen pops up, I slap it, and take the pile.  They all look at me like I'm crazy, and one of the waves her finger at me.  It turns out, this group had a set of rules that state you slap the "king", not the queen.  I start to laugh out loud.

I sit down, open up my spring water, thinking about how quickly I was slapping these cards in an effort to win.  The facilitator asks "What did you learn from this experiment?"  I get a mouth full of water, and a woman looks at me and says:

"That some people play more aggressively than others!"

I started to laugh, getting spring water all over the boardroom table.

 

[CellarDweller]

Yeah Kelda, that was the reaction of other people in the room!

 

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Well I hope you cleaned it up! 

[CellarDweller]

Well I hope you cleaned it up! 

lol!  Yes I did!

[Katie77]

I sit down, open up my spring water, thinking about how quickly I was slapping these cards in an effort to win.  The facilitator asks "What did you learn from this experiment?"  I get a mouth full of water, and a woman looks at me and says:

"That some people play more aggressively than others!"

I started to laugh, getting spring water all over the boardroom table.

And they needed a card game at a business meeting to work that out.........??.........

[CellarDweller]

And they needed a card game at a business meeting to work that out.........??.........

Katie, the exercise was supposed to demonstrate the need for communication.

The group I was with before being switched was slapping on Queens.  The group I was moved to was slapping on Kings.  Because they couldn't talk, I didn't know this, and with them was playing the game wrong, which was causing confusion and havoc.

[CellarDweller]

Well, we all know that little kids have stuffed animals.

I never knew that young cats use them too? 


One day about a month ago, Blaze went into my parents' bedroom, and took the little stuffed kitten my mom had sitting on her dresser, and it's been his ever since.

[CellarDweller]

He carries it in his mouth from room to room, we never know where we're going to find it.