Low Tech Solitaire

I spent Memorial Day Weekend at a resort condo with my husband and daughter, three brothers and their families, and my parents. During a down moment I had found a deck of cards and was playing a hand of solitaire. My 19 year old nephew watched me for a minute, and when it dawned on him what I was doing he asked me “how do you know how many cards you put in each pile?”

I laughed because I thought, “Everyone knows how many cards you put in each pile,” but then stopped short as I realized that he didn’t know. The only way he had ever played solitaire was on a computer (thank you, Bill Gates?). Lesson learned – I can’t assume everyone knows what I know – about anything!

I take this lesson seriously as I think about the many new members our club has recruited. Our club, like many Soroptimist Clubs, has a culture of its own that our new members need to learn, in addition to the Soroptimist culture. I can’t – we can’t – expect our new members to understand everything and need to make a concerted effort to tell them.