I only had my little sister Mary Elizabeth to play with during this whole ordeal of panic and it really put a crimp into the games we could play outside. Hide-n-seek was obviously out (though my sister didn't catch on until my mother told her) and tag was outlawed once the tangled ropes nearly strangled her.

Without my friends it got to be a drag and I tried coming up with new games. I got punished for talking Mary Elizabeth into playing "Ascension" and untying the rope around her waist.