It might have been slightly unfair to have an uninitiated fourth at a game night with CLH and RCL and me. But you need a minimum of four people, and so this non-reading, non-gaming person was dragged in. In Cranium, she started awkwardly, attempting to do the "Seven-Year Itch" skirt thing and then forfeiting, but she laughed when I stood and bumped a hip and cooed "Happy birth-" and my sister guessed Marilyn Monroe; and she rallied enough to laugh at herself when some book thing turned up and she said "I don't read books. Magazines, maybe. I like the pictures."
I submitted "oenophilia" as a hobby during Scattergories, and Uninitiated Marilyn didn't see how that word begins with an O. But CLH had had to spell "subpoena" during Cranium and I offered Oedipus and economics as other sneaky "oe" Greek words. I offered "defenestration" as a fear beginning with D, and first no one believed it was a word, but did not two of the other three people in the room also learn about the Thirty Years War with Mr. Hage? Please. So RCL learned anew that ^ often indicates a dropped S, and at least CLH remembered learning that from Mrs. Degree.
That shared growing-up-ed-ness is why it would have been criminally unfair for CLH to be paired with either her sister or her friend of 35 years. She and Uninitiated Marilyn won Cranium and RCL won Scattergories. Me, I could do Marilyn Monroe but I couldn't do Porky Pig and when I started with "oink oink" all I could think of was Herbie luring the Bumble out of the cave in "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and also I couldn't guess RCL's hummed rendition of "YMCA" and that's why we lost Cranium.
I love game night.