SUPER MARIO BROTHERS
My brother, me, and Dan were sitting down in Matt’s basement watching the Bulls play the Cleveland Cavaliers and, eventually, we got bored with the game and started playing Nintendo. The Bulls had gained a huge lead and, after that, there’s not much point watching the rest of the game. Matt had set up the classic Nintendo with all the old games on it like Super Mario Brothers, Zelda, Final Fantasy, and even Duck Hunt. Duck Hunt was a game with a plastic gun where you shot at ducks flying across the video game screen. That was entertaining for a while, but we’d all grown up playing those games and had already played them through time and again. Zelda and Final Fantasy weren’t even all that great, despite being role-playing games that could take up hours and hours because we’d already beaten them before. So we’re sitting around and I see a pair of scissors lying on a table. I snatch them up and snip off some of my brother’s hair. Actually, I think I cut off one of his bangs. We all laughed and he cried, but, really, he needed a haircut and, in fact, got one the next day. From my perspective, I just helped him.