“Ok everyone,” Carrie said, as Harvey and Freddy quietly slink into seats on one of the other couches; “this first game is called ‘hump or dump’, everyone take an index card…” and Carrie draws out the word as she hands cards and pens out “…and write on one side a quality you look for in partners, and on the other side a quality that would get them ‘dumped’; assuming for purposes of the game that guys can actually break up with girls,” Carrie tacks on with an eye-roll as she sees you raise your hand.
Shrugging, you write on one side: ‘Vegetarian’, and on the other: ‘photo album of past boyfriends’, knowing you didn’t need to be specific as to what that album would undoubtedly contain pictures of. Carrie kept such an album, though only online.
“Ok, now put the cards in the bag…” Carrie said, walking around the group with a plastic grocery bag held open in her hands. “…And now, I’ll read a card, and whoever guesses who wrote it gets a point.”
“Ahem; ooh, ‘Is a fashionable dresser’, that’s a good one. And: ‘is a couch potato’. So, I forgot to have you all write which side is good and which is bad, but I think this one’s pretty obvious.”
“Is it Leah?” Madelyn asks.
“Is it you, Leah?” Carrie turns toward your couch, eyebrow raised.
“Yes.”
