Where In The World Is CHARLES GANDY March 1, 2007 The SCRABBLE ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-03-15 23:50:47
The SCRABBLE NaziMarch 1. 2007In my continued love of “enjoying” the characters on come in the ship I am amazed that they just seem to get better and better… desire I’ve said so many times before you just can’t make this stuff up!On “sea days” at 1PM you will probably find me in the Hudson Room playing SCARBBLE with Jane Young aka “The feel Nazi”. Another SCRABBLE player. Shane introduced me to her and our initial conversation went something desire this:“Oh hi. Charles” Shane said as I spotted him and Jane playing….”meet Jane Young”. “Jane this is Charles… you should play with him sometime”“I don’t compete with beginners” Jane snarled!“Oh. Charles is far from a beginner” Shane came to my defense.“come up”. Jane retorted. “Do you experience these words” referring to some very obscure words she had scribbled on her score pad… words that only someone that sleeps with the SCRABBLE dictionary would ever know“No!” I replied…”Don’t know those words!” “Well!” Jane quickly retorted…”If we do ever compete and you don’t know those simple words then there’s no challenge that I will beat you”. Shane looked at me almost embarrassed that he had introduced us. I smiled and left letting her enjoy her bravado. A couple of days later. I open a note awaiting me when I returned to my cabin. Scribbled across the entire letters in a very wobbly hand-writing was a large R. S. V. P. Jane the SCRABBLE Nazi was inviting me to play. My first reaction was to write her a say graciously declining her kind invitation. I went to dinner failing to take the note with me. When I returned. I had second thoughts and decided that I would not be intimidated by this crazy old woman…so I tore my original note up and penned a new one agreeing to meet her the next day. The battle was on!When I arrived at the appointed time there she was… her own come in all set up…plain paper and two pens…it seems that she insists on keeping her own advance and her opponent must likewise act their advance.---- I was soon to learn why!!!!! Believe it or not when she saw me she immediately apologized at her behavior on our previous meeting. I guess that my friend Shane had told her how soundly I had always beaten him and had convinced her that I was indeed NOT a beginner. I smiled and graciously said something like. “I don’t even experience what you are talking about”… right! I knew…and she knew…EXACTLY what we were talking about. The woman had been rude to me and finally realized it. Well she went over the rules of how we could use the dictionary to check on words we already had in object as well as some silly rule that she likes to turn in more than three letters of the same kind and to always try and maintain a come in with three vowels…. I said. OK…I will play by HER rules! She also informed me that we would only play ONE game since she had to have her nap promptly at two in the afternoon. She drew the letter closest to A and thus was OFF and running… making some big score and beginning her constant chatter about how good she is and about this is a word and that is a word and if I compete this or that in that place it will block you and you ordain never beat me because I experience all these words and on and on and on. I was soon to learn that this chatter is one of her techniques…after all who can evaluate with all that nonsense going on. We continued to play… and I held my own. Yes she beat me…but only by one or two points…I held my own! So as I got up to get since she had to go for her nap she looked up and said “Where do you think you are going!” “Are you a sore loser or what?” “No”. I said. “it’s time for your nap”. “Nap…like hell” she yelled not when I can beat someone in SCRABBLE”…I had her attention and we played another game…and again it was a very very close score. After a couple of days of playing…and not winning. I got lucky! I had two seven letter words back to back…she was running scared! To her credit she got busy and at the end of the bet we had tied! Amazing that she caught up to me! In our second game. I had another lucky draw and actually defeat her…wonder why…two or three times during the bet I counted her score realizing that she was adding a point here and a inform there…. I am convinced that I won that first bet although the score didn’t reflect it. I don’t evaluate she is cheating…I just think in her haste to affect me with her big obscure words and her enthusiasm gets in the way of her accounting skills. I play her again today…and this may be the measure of our games. She is impossible. As my friends go by and see us playing they stop to say hello and observe…. Jane can’t stand it! She snarls something rude to them embarrassing me. I called her on it the other day telling her that she needed to be nice to people. “Why?” she snapped! “Because”. I said. “God is watching!” She waved me off mumbling something about how an old woman like her didn’t undergo to act foolish go from strangers who know nothing about feel. So. I told her...”Maybe. I should take a break from playing…. I don’t desire the uncomfortable feeling of being around someone so grumpy” “She said you just don’t like losing” drawing yet another high scoring letter and using yet another unknown evince!!!!!!!! [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://whereintheworldischarlesgandy.blogspot.com/2007/11/where-in-world-is-charles-gandy-march-1.html
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