Popular elementary school game, "MASH," which according to Mallory van Dampenheimer (11), stands for "Mansion-Apartment-Shack-House," has evolved in the past twenty years.
Says van Dampenheimer, "My mom said it used to just be, like, 'Where would you live?', 'Who would you marry?'---real surface-level stuff like that. So boring! We want to get into it." Categories touching on themes like "death," "vulnerability," and "faith" commonly make appearances in bejeweled One Direction notebooks, scribbled in pastel pen. Public school buses today are filled with pre-teen girls asking each other questions like, "Where would you be buried?" with choices like "in a terrorist above-ground graveyard on a craggy rock surface" (as seen above) or "in a pet cemetery by accident."
"We like to mix it up." Van Dampenheimer added with a giggle, "My favorite category is 'What would you avoid?' I always try to rig it so that I get 'uncomfortable interactions,' but I always end up landing on 'responsibility!'"
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