Card game for a past time, anyone?
Every weekend, the laminated table at the far end of the kitchen of an old bungalow along Moneta Avenue serves as a favorite rendezvous. They are not holding a closed door meeting, so they say. Instead, they are there to while away the time, not exercising but playing a card game, now becoming an inseparable part of their lives. The players, comprising mostly of veteran pensioners, wouldn't start until the table is complete by calling each of them to their favorite rendezvous. But the game doesn't start until after lunch time, when everybody has eaten their meals. That would free the host from preparing anything for them to eat anymore. To most of them, each session proves to be another way of learning from each other new tricks of the game, plus the sharing of the latest news developments at home. Here, they learn to trade jokes and share solutions to family-related problems. One of the couples, who happened to be witnessing the game, said that they are not in good terms with ...