Speaking of board games...

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THANK GOD my Grandma saved all of my Mom & her Sisters' board games!!

Otherwise, I would have never been introduced to the childhood joy that was Mystery Date.

A boardgame dedicated to the wonders of dating! It's about fashion. It's about etiquette. It's about your big night. And, when you finally are able to open the little standing plastic door at the end to see who's pickin' you up for a swank night on the town? Sheer bliss. That is, unless, you get the "dud".

Being this game was circa 195?, the men were very much of their time. Young, chiseled, strapping pieces of "A" like the bowler in his shelaqued 'do & thick, black framed glasses with groovy bowling bag and matching shoes. Or, the Ken doll in the tuxedo waiting to whisk you off to prom. Nowadays? You might think the hotties kind of square (I still think they're cute!) But the "dud"? Yowza. He looked like a rumpled, sexy Calvin Klein model with work boots and bedhead.

I'd do the "dud" anyday.

But, I was just an innocent giggly kid & it wasn't Mystery Lay.