Just in Time for Thanksgiving . . . Dysfunctional Family Bingo, 2009
For years I’ve been capitalizing on a concept originally created by a Brookline psychologist in 2000 as a tool with which to deal with familial tension during holiday gatherings: Dysfunctional Family Bingo.
Dysfunctional Family Bingo is like a regular Bingo game except that the squares on the Bingo card are filled with crazy incidents that could plausibly happen during a holiday dinner like Thanksgiving or Christmas. But unlike regular Bingo, believe me, this is not a game you want to win, at least not unless you’ve had your Zoloft prescription filled recently. If you actually are able to fill out five squares in a row to get Bingo, well, I feel for you my friend; you’ve clearly endured an oddball holiday gathering. Perhaps you should write a best selling memoir about it.
But for most of the rest of us, hopefully, reading through the 2009 Dysfunctional Family Bingo card will be a subversive, snarky way to recognize that there’s no such thing as a “perfect” holiday dinner and that everybody’s family is a tad off-kilter.
So, for your reading pleasure, I introduce my 2009 Dysfunctional Family Bingo card. (Go to this link to see the card.)
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Comment by jackwills — December 22, 2009 @ 3:00 pm