Anywho, I was out with some friends a couple of nights ago and we were just shooting the shit and this broad topic came up, and so we were all sharing the little games we had come up with. I had just finished talking about “card-toss” when this other guy – a friend of a friend – came up and so he heard just the very tail-end of what I had said, and asked if I’d repeat it. And so I did, but somehow completely out of the blue I just added an extra little step. Basically what I said was this:
You get a large pot, something like you’d cook spaghetti sauce in … about that size … and you fill it about two-thirds full with water – I usually add a lemon slice, but you don’t have to – and then set it down on the floor about 10 to 12 feet away from you, and you sit in a chair and just toss a deck of cards one-at-a-time into the pot to see how many you can make.
And that was that. He seemed mildly interested but the conversation moved on to something else. But then I saw this guy again last night and he came up to me and said he had gotten pretty good at card toss and was up to making about 20 or so out of every deck. Then he said, “but why do you fill the pot with water? I keep getting little drops of water over everything, and the cards get all wet and the next day they’re all slimy and the carpet’s wet … what’s the point of the water?" All I said was “hmmm, I don’t know – I never really thought about it.”
I suppose I was being a bit dickish, but I did find it rather amusing to think of this guy throwing cards into a pot filled with water without ever having questioned why the water was necessary.
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Here’s great 1998 concert recording of an old Santana classic for Our Duncan Funk Song of the Day.
Title: Samba Pa Ti
Artist: Santana
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