Playing life's little games

If you’re bored and what to play a game that is homeowner related, try this little home-maintenance action game Home Owners Revenge.The game demonstrates to home owners how their homes may be at risk from leaves, birds, and other critters that invade the plumbing pipes on their rooftops.

"This new, interactive video game is designed to give tormented home owners a creative outlet while educating them and encouraging them to have a good time," said Kenneth Brown, president of the creator of the game, JAF Industries.The game tests speed, hand-eye coordination, and includes three proficiency levels: easy, hard, and insane. Miss a falling leaf or bird and the penalty is a big bill. Get too many bills and you lose your home.

Of course, every time you lose the game you get a commercial for the services of JAF Industries, but hey, we already said that you were bored. The real point of the game is to let you see the damage and potential repair costs of letting debris and critters have access to your plumbing pipes.

I suppose we could have a similar game where leaves collect in your gutters and then they fall off or water drips off and gets into your basement or ice dams build up and your roof leaks. What fun!

Perhaps in our modern attention-deficient-disorder oriented world games like this are the only way to get attention on problems that need attention. Maybe we should have a mortgage foreclosure game. You could watch as the little cartoon sheriff auctions off your house and then kicks your little cartoon behind out of the house. You’ll be laughing all the way to the curb. Wait! Maybe a little cartoon congressman will appear out of nowhere, with little cartoon fists full of money and bail you out. How can real life get any better?

Someone pass me a pen. I want to draw a little cartoon Lotto official showing up at my door to tell me that I won the Big Game Lotto drawing. Then you can have the pen back.