Cootie

Day 148: A few days ago while I was searching for something in my garage, I discovered I had cooties...four of them, to be precise, all of their legs, antennae, eyes and proboscises intact...and I wandered down the path of nostalgia to a place of gentler, simpler times.

My father and mother played this game, and it was perhaps my first introduction to the scientific terms for insect body parts. At four or five years old, the words fascinated me and after all, the box does state, "an exciting educational game for all ages." Was it a guidepost on the course of my life? Yes, I believe so.

Cooties. Whodathunk they'd play a role in the formative years of a child?