Becoming Banned from the Game
We used to play a game called Sardines, where only one person hides and everyone else seeks him/her. When you find the person hiding, you hide with them. The last person to find you all loses. It’s hilarious with a group of you trying to cram into some of the tiny hiding spots.
My family used to rent a Chateau in France every other year for Christmas, so you could get all 16-odd members of my family in one place. It was awesome and the place was huge, with a cellar and three staircases, so there was plenty of places to hide.
It was so good we managed get our grandparents to join in. The game got pretty competitive—then things got rotten. In a rush between a few of my cousins and my grandad, he managed to fall down the stairs and break his leg. That promptly banned us from playing that for the rest of the holiday. ollieee_w