Things I miss Friday - MASH

No, not the TV show - the game little girls play:

As you can see, you listed the boys you liked, the careers you wanted, cities you wanted to live in, and cars you wanted to drive.  MASH stood for: mansion, apartment, shack, house - i.e. the places you might live as an adult.  The person doing the selection for you drew a squiggle in the middle until you told them to stop.  Then they counted either how many spaces were in the swirl or how many lines from top to bottom (I grew up counting the lines).  Then they went through the list counting off and crossing off until you were only left with one item in each category.

I just did one for myself and here's my future:  I'm living in a shack with Chris Pine (the new Captain Kirk - HAWT!) in Baltimore.  I drive a convertible Mini and make my living as a writer.  Now isn't that fun?  (Although how I have a Mini and a movie star as a husband but live in a shack, I don't know.  Shopping habit?)  As a little girl, imagining these aspects of your future is one of the most fun things you could do, or at least it was for me.  There was nothing like imagining what it would be like to have someone who loved me, who promised to love me for life, to have my own home and car, and a full career in a city I imagined I'd love (since I hadn't been to any foreign cities in elementary school).

I imagine that today this would be very different.  In fact, even filling this out right now was really difficult.  I could only think of a few careers I want.  I only chose celebrities as future husbands because there's no other "regular" guy I want other than my hubby.  The cars weren't really interesting to think about and the cities felt really unlikely since so much of my life is tied to north Jersey - I don't see going far.  So what would the grown-up game look like?  There might still be cars.  Other lists might be number of children or places to visit or some valuable life comforts (like winning the lottery or college loans paid off).  I don't know; I'll have to think about it a bit more.  This game told us what we thought we'd value as adult women; now that we are, is it the same?

Comments

[ssallykat]

MINIs are awesome! And they just updated the convertible.

(sorry, had to comment on the MINI part.. I just love 'em!)

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[Lori]

Wow--I haven't thought about MASH in years! Thanks for a little trip down memory lane!