As I was searching for a fun game to give to a youngster I know, I was happy to see one of my favorites still on the shelf. The game in question is Mouse Trap.
Santa brought it to me one year and it was always a favorite that I would play with Amos and Andy during those rainy days when we could not ride our bikes up and down the street. The game is a true classic.
The entire point of the game was to build a mousetrap that was set off by a silver ball bearing. With each turn, we would take turns adding to the mousetrap. Once it was built, we would then turn on each other and try to trap each other for the win.
It was fun watching the ball bearing move along the game setting off a cascading number of events that would culminate with the trap shimming its way down the pole and onto the mouse below. It was simple and mindless and fun to play.
Well, the builders of the condominium complex featured in this week’s column must have been Mouse Trap masters.
It is the only thing that explains The Dimetrodon.
According to the listing agent’s description, The Dimetrodon was built in the 1970s by a “design-build community of architects.” I understand what those words mean individually but when put in that order I can only retort, “Huh?”
We are going to let the photo above do the explaining on this one.
The Dimetrodon is located at 16 Dimetro Rd in Warren, Vermont. Unit No. 5 has four bedrooms, one-and-a-half bathrooms and is 1,200 square feet. The asking price is $290,000.
Unit 5 is the original condo built by these architects and also where they lived as they built the other units. One would think that living in 1,200 square feet they would talk to each other about how they wanted this building to look but then where is the fun in that?
The building sits on 15 acres of land that are comprised of a lower meadow, common gardens, and wooded areas.
I really do not know what the kids on the lake have to do with The Dimetrodon, but they look like they are having a good time so why not?
The only thing missing from this picture is the basket precariously waiting to drop, which I am sure is making some mice very happy.
To see more photos of this listing, go here.
