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 cram 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 like this:“Oh hi. Charles” Shane said as I spotted him and Jane playing….”cater Jane Young”. “Jane this is Charles… you should play with him sometime”“I don’t play with beginners” Jane snarled!“Oh. Charles is far from a beginner” Shane came to my defense.“Well”. 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 feel dictionary would ever know“No!” I replied…”Don’t experience those words!” “Well!” Jane quickly retorted…”If we do ever play and you don’t experience those simple words then there’s no question that I will defeat you”. Shane looked at me almost embarrassed that he had introduced us. I smiled and left letting her enjoy her bravado. A bring together of days later. I found 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 create verbally her a note graciously declining her kind invitation. I went to dinner failing to take the say 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 board all set up…plain paper and two pens…it seems that she insists on keeping her own advance and her opponent must likewise keep their score.---- 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 suspect 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 know 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 mind 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 keep a board 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 evince and that is a word and if I play this or that in that place it will block you and you will never defeat me because I experience all these words and on and on and on. I was soon to learn that this go is one of her techniques…after all who can think 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 leave 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 measure for your nap”. “Nap…like hell” she yelled not when I can defeat someone in SCRABBLE”…I had her attention and we played another game…and again it was a very very close advance. 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 game we had tied! Amazing that she caught up to me! In our second game. I had another lucky draw and actually beat her…wonder why…two or three times during the bet I counted her score realizing that she was adding a inform here and a inform there…. I am convinced that I won that first bet although the advance didn’t reflect it. I don’t think she is cheating…I just evaluate in her haste to impress me with her big obscure words and her enthusiasm gets in the way of her accounting skills. I compete her again today…and this may be the last of our games. She is impossible. As my friends walk by and see us playing they stop to say hello and observe…. Jane can’t rest 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 desire her didn’t have to take foolish chatter from strangers who know nothing about SCRABBLE. So. I told her...”Maybe. I should act a end from playing…. I don’t like the uncomfortable feeling of being around someone so grumpy” “She said you just don’t desire losing” drawing yet another high scoring letter and using yet another unknown word!!!!!!!! [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://whereintheworldischarlesgandy.blogspot.com/2007/11/where-in-world-is-charles-gandy-march-1.html
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