#56 "Important Button" By Susan Pearl

When I was a little girl we played a game called "Button, botton, whose got the button?"
We would sit with clasped hands and one person with a button inside clasped hands would go to each of us and pretend to drop the button into our clasped hands,
Of course, only one would receive the important button and then another player had to try and guess who had the button.  It was a fun and kind of suspenseful game. How important that button was to me.
There was a lot to the game because if you actually felt the button fall into your clasped hands you had to act like you didn't get the button and not show it.  Because the guessing of who had the button was a big part of the game.
Some people were easy to guess if given the button.
Some people tried to trick others by pretending to have been given the button when the button had not really been given to them.  Some people were better at secretly giving the button.
It was really a game of guessing, being right or wrong, of being out played or not, and all of that over a little button.
That important button that I wanted to be given was so simple yet it gave me many exciting fun times with friends and it is still interesting to think about---because all that from a button, a button that was seen through childhood eyes as being so very important button at the time.