"Um...... My cousin was wondering if he could join your game?"

"I know," I said,"we should play monkey in the middle." Even though there were only four of us, we still figured monkey in the middle would be fun. "Let's go."

We had been playing monkey in the middle for probably about 20 minutes (I never looked at the time), when a mini van pulled up in the parking lot next to where we were playing. About 6 kids (they seemed to be around our ages) got out, followed by their driver. They were all bouncing basketballs and seemed to be on a team of some sort withtheirdriver being their coach.

We kept playing our frisbee game and didn't pay much attention to the basketball. Shortly after, another car pulled into the parking lot and another four kids got out. The man who seemed to be the coach walked over to the driver of the man. Although we couldn't hear the whole conversation, we thought that the team had scheduled practice and it had been cancelled.


We didn't pay much attention to the people and we kept playing monkey in the middle. We finally got bored and just started tossing the frisbee around. Suddenly, one of the bored kids from the basketball team came up to us.

"Um... My cousin was wondering if he could join your game?" He asked and turned away.
"No I wasn't." Another oh replied.
"You can both play if you want to," I said back.

Before we knew it, our four person monkey in the middle game had turned into a ten person game. After about fifteen minutes the people we were playing with piled back into the cars that had brought them and went back on their way.

I have no idea who we played monkey in the middle with, and no idea if they even were a basketball tea,. But one thing is true, the game is a lot more fun with ten people than with four.