Exploding Kittens

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​EXPLODING KITTENS

      Exploding Kittens, as I understand it, is a card game,

...that involves a deck of fairly outré  picture cards, 

...that are played according to only a few very simple rules and mostly requires using strategy to avoid: 1). losing all one's cards and 2). drawing an Exploding Kitten card at a moment when one is not in possession of a Defuse card, 

...both of which predicaments result in one losing and dropping out of the game.
     Apparently Exploding Kittens enjoys a large following of aficionados of all ages, my daughter Theresa being among them.

      It was Theresa who brought Exploding Kittens into the house and introduced her nieces to the game.

...of which they immediately became super-fans. 
     My granddaughters changed the proverb about if you save a person's life, you are from then on responsible for their life, to if you teach a person to play Exploding Kittens, you are from then on responsible for playing Exploding Kittens with them. All the time.
      Every morning the girls waited expectantly for Theresa to wake up to play a few games of Exploding Kittens with them before she left for work.

     Theresa's daily obligation to play Exploding Kittens with them was the hill they planted their flag on.
​       Even on her birthday.

      Even when she was trying to take a nap.

     And when Theresa wasn't around, woe to any one else who appeared not to be busy.   

     (Sitting down for breakfast or lunch didn't count as being busy).

      However, Exploding Kittens did turn out to be a splendid ice-breaker the day the girls invited over their Creekside friends (see post from  8/15/2021, "The Places We Went").

       The day after my daughter and her family left Columbus for their trip back to Los Angeles I found the box of Exploding Kittens cards that the girls had forgotten to pack. I called my daughter and told her that I would send them their game in the mail.
       To which my daughter replied, "Please don't."