The Matching Game

When Chloe was young, she began a tradition of creating surveys for family and friends to fill out during holiday gatherings. Part of the tradition was that the questions and answers had to fit on one piece of notebook paper. She would write the questions in the left column, names across the top and draw a grid. As participants completed the survey, they would fold the paper accordion style to conceal their answers and hand the questionnaire to the person whose name appeared in the next column.

After many years in hiatus (coinciding with Toe and Lo's move to Indiana, PA?!?) the tradition was revived this year and there were some funny and eerie matches. The funniest answer was Ty's response to "What non-material thing do you want in the next year?" (In contrast to answers like "peace, love, family time, etc." he said "Mario Cart," a populuar video game. No slouch in the vocabulary department, Ty had interpreted "non-material" to be something other than clothes.)

In the eerie coincidence department, Jordan and Ty named the same person in answer to the question "Which actor would you want to play you in the movie of your life?" (Ewan MacGregor) and Adrienne and I used the same questionable word construction in response to "If you could have one quality you don't think you have already, what would it be?" (carefreeness). Chloe is a genius at devising questions that provide the perfect balance of humor and reflection.