Your therapist always asks you about your childhood. Whether or not you've sat on a plushie, reclined chair and talked to the ceiling before, you know for a fact that everyone's pretty screwed up by the beginning part of their lives. For anxious over-thinkers, it's pretty simple to trace the line between your adulthood anxieties, and the stress of your childhood– Operation. If you were born anytime before 2000, you've probably played the high stakes, loud noise, don't-kill-your-imaginary-patient game that had an absolute stranglehold over the kid's toy industry for decades. Not only was there a secret timer threatening to explode the bones out of the human person you were supposedly operating on, but this same patient was needing his bones and organs removed with the same precision and accuracy of a bomb squad. Operation wasn't even the only explosive game of your childhood, there were several others that most likely triggered all of your anxieties, so you can go ahead and blame Hasboro every time you stress about answering a phone call.
