While walking around a car boot sale I spotted a game of Tiddley Winks. It has to be the most boring, unimaginable "game" the has ever been invented since time began. Some people may remember this silly little game and the hours of misery it caused. If you had any relations that hated children, you can bet, they would buy you a game of Tiddley Winks for Christmas.
Then to rub salt into the wounds, the child hater would turn up at your house for the day, and your parents made you get the game out and play it. My brother and I would set the game up and use the big Tiddley Wink to tiddley a little wink into a tiny little pot. It was impossible to hit the target.
So this game started with an arguement as to who would have what colour. My favourite colour was blue and so was my brothers. So there would be fighting and whinging for the first ten minutes. If you lost that battle, as I always did because my brother was older than me, I had a choice of green, red or yellow. I did not want any of those colours so the game started with me not wanting to tiddley wink with one of those colours.
I would look at my brother and hate him for having the blue tiddley wink. That made me determined to beat him. The game would start. If anyone doesn't know the rules, I don't believe this person exists, you had to press the big tiddley wink on to the small tiddley wink and make it flip into a tiny little pot. I'm not sure I have ever seen it done? But if you took your eye off the game for a second, the pot would be filled with little blue tiddley winks.
That would cause another arguement, I would accuse my brother of cheating, he would deny it and another scrap broke out. Even if the game was supervised it was still horrible, because it was so hard. Even if it had been easy it was a rotton game. The game would end, as it always did, with you flipping the wink all over the place and follow it around the house. Even while I am writing this I am getting angry about not having the blue ones.