Try To Get Me

Try to get me is a game that NEVER goes well.
Keegan and Maren play it in the backseat on the way to daycare, and they sit RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER!!
How can you two try to get each other when you are a thumb-length away???
I wince the moment I hear Keegan's little voice pipe up "Mawen!  Try to get me!"
Because I know that sh*t is not going to go down well.  Someone is going to get poked wrong and someone is going to poke back and then SOMEONE is going to wail and someone else is going to YELL from the driver's seat "STOP IT RIGHT NOW!!" and it's just a mess.  Daycare is only four minutes away!! Can't we just listen to Taylor Swift and have some peace???
Try to get me has never worked for me.
I didn't like is as a kid because I was littler than the other kids on the playground and I could NEVER catch those long-legged girls.
Any "try to get me" I did on the dating scene in my 20's or 30's just went south because no man was interested in a woman who made herself THAT available. I can't understand why my Try To Get Me t-shirt at the bars didn't work.  Wasn't I just being transparent?  Isn't it important to be honest when you start a relationship?
Nowadays, I am just got:   Maren cornering me, screaming incoherently about Daniel Tiger, Keegan needing his insulin shot, and the baby, wet, hungry and still in his car seat from daycare pick up an hour ago.
Really, though, much better than advertising at the bar, I think.