52 pick up

Have you ever played 52 pick up?

When I was a kid my cousins always asked me this question. It only took once for me to learn that when you answered no, they’d then toss a deck of cards, all 52, in the air and promptly tell you, “Now, pick them up.”

My girls have no concept of what 52 pick-up is. However I got off my computer to walk into our dining room with 23 (I counted) decks of cards splattered all over the dining room floor. So that’s 52 x 23, which is 1196 pick-up, give or take a few that have been lost over the years, that all needed to be sorted back into their individual boxes. It was a long hour.

They weren’t being bad, they just had no idea that it took that much time to pick up that many cards and sort them.