X for

Today we enjoyed rather too much of the A303, the M3 and the M25.

My ears were bombarded with the whining child's cry of "I'm bored" so I kicked off the alphabet memory game.

This has many forms but I merged a few themes to initiate "On my holiday I took ..." And kicked off with an Aardvark.

We worked our way through the alphabet with the following choices:

Aardvark 

Bear

Cheetah

Dinosaur

Emu

Frog

Gecko

Handbag full of hippos

Ibis

Jaguar

Lynx

Minotaur

Nuthatch

Orc

Pig

Roger Rabbit

Sphinx

Tiny tortoise

Unicorn

Vampire bat

Weasel 

X-Ray Tetra

And then it fell over because my submission of X-Ray Tetra was not allowed by the two remaining contestants Dave and Ethan.

Dave asserted that I'd clearly cheated. 

I had, but you tell me of an animal that starts with X.

Then they couldn't agree on what should happen next. Should my submission be allowed to stand or should poor Ethan be required to come up with an alternative suggestion? Should they skip straight to "Y"? 

The game collapsed and we resorted to what we do best: calling each other names.