Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Redo

I remember many old elementary school kickball games, where everyone knew different rules of how to play the game.  At some point, a kid would come up with the idea to, instead of arguing, simply redo the play.  Most often this worked to ease the disputes over where the foul line was, or to determine if Jimmy really did step on second base.  The redo acted as a nice compromise because both sides had the chance to improve upon their performance and achieve a positive result.  However, often times redoes would become so commonplace that they would be called for almost every round.  Nothing would get done, and people would just abuse the redo system whenever they simply didn't get their way.

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