There is a game we play at home that I would like to share.
The rules are simple:
Given you are alone in a dark room or corridor
When you hear someone else approaching
Then you have try jump out at them
And scare the c**p out of them
There is some skill to this game. Once you have played it a few times everyone knows what is going to happen. In anticipation, everyone goes very silent in order to detect where the other one is. Inevitably, people stop breathing but start laughing - first one who does has lost.
None of the kids play this game. This is something myself and Mrs A do, which is most unbecoming of some 40 year olds.
It is something that is uniquely ours. Something that does not really make sense in another context. It is special to us but probably completely dumb to others. It was not planned but was spontaneous and if it was copied would not be the same.
But this is where the good stuff is.
Teams also have these special bits too. They come from working closely with each other and letting your guard down enough to reveal our human selves.
This does not happen immediately. I often does not happen if there conditions are not right, if there is not enough freedom to express who we are and explore our relationships with one another.
Often unprofessional, usually silly and totally unique to each team, these are the special features that make teams great both to work in and with. Love them or loose them.
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