Never Playing it Cool

Firstly I will warn you, this is possibly going to be a blog of many tangents, or just the one large tangent. We'll see how it goes. I grew up playing board games with my family from a very young age. My earliest memory of playing was a game called "No Room At The Zoo" which, if memory serves me involved trying to off load animal tokens to the other players so as to not have an over populated Zoo. The mechanic must have been quite simple as I remember being a toddler when playing it, or at least I hope I was a toddler, that way my crying and bawling because my brother kept loading his animals onto my zoo doesn't seem so ridiculous. When friends would come over I insisted on playing a board game regardless of their protests, and despite their reluctancy they always ended up loving it as much as I did. You see as we all grew older the majority of my friends were going off and doing the cool teenager things. Hanging out with friends on street corners, football, girl...