A Scrabble Brunch
“I lost my deluxe lazy-Susan scrabble board in a divorce,” I said to my two scrabble partners. We were playing in a different location than we usually do, a restaurant that didn’t have a complimentary scrabble game, and so I brought mine from home. I couldn’t remember the last time I used it, but I could guess where I was. Everything in the box was sprinkled with a fine layer of beach sand.
The table was crowded. Not only did each of us have a full meal in front of us, but being that we were all writers, a couple of notebooks were also on the table. I was wearing the turquoise and adventure necklace that my friend Alex, who is battling cancer, recently gifted me with. I wanted to draw on her scrabble abilities and evoke her scrabble spirit in the room.
Alex plays a big game. “Sometimes we get 3 or 4 scrabbles (using all 7 letters for an extra 50 points) in game,” she had told me when I was at her house a couple of weeks ago.
“I play small,” I answered, feeling like a virgin as I went on to admit that I had never had a scrabble. “My strength is in playing high scoring small words that build on existing words. I frequently make 2 and sometimes 3 words in one play.”
Why does it seem that the fiddle player on stage plays more loudly when it’s my turn, I was thinking as I stroked the necklace and squinted my eyes to study the board?
“Whose turn is it anyways?” someone at the table asked.
I didn’t get a scrabble that day, but the score was in my favor, so it’s likely that I’ll be wearing the necklace Alex gave me for future games.
November 9th, 2005 11:27 am
Ahhhh, the lucky necklace gets it’s start! Great story, it provided me with lots of different images (fiddler, food, drinks, etc.)
November 9th, 2005 11:27 am
Oooh, and I forgot to say, hi, Michele sent me (before I got a chance to visit on my own)
November 9th, 2005 12:45 pm
I am such an atrocious speller that I am terrified of playing scrabble.. but envy those that do. It looks like so much fun.
November 9th, 2005 5:43 pm
Fun post!
November 9th, 2005 6:23 pm
That necklace may have a story of its own some day.
November 9th, 2005 6:55 pm
I’ve made several two-word combos before, but three? That’s impressive.
November 9th, 2005 10:58 pm
Wonderful post. Brings back memories; it’s been years since I’ve played. When I spent a week on a 40-foot fishing boat with 11 other people, someone had the wonderful foresight to bring a miniature, magnetized Scrabble board. The magnets were invaluable during some of the rougher rides.
November 9th, 2005 11:01 pm
What a wonderful necklace. I see a scrabble in your future.
November 10th, 2005 3:13 am
How great to have discovered that you have a ‘lucky’ necklace! I have not played scrabble for many many years…When I was..well truthfully I don’t rember how old I was, but my mother somehow heard about this NEW board game and had been able to buy one of the very first test games..they wanted people to try the game and see if it was going to go over…this boxed game had been cut by hand or something like that..made of wood, and somewhere, I still have the box, with all the wooden tiles..the box was falling apart kind of, last I looked, but everything else was still in very good condition! NOW, a collector’s item I guess. Gosh, I haven’t thought about that in years.. Thanks for bringing all that back Coleen! And good luck in your future Scrabble Lunches! Don’t forget to waer that wonderful necklace!
November 10th, 2005 12:08 pm
Honey…it’s called a bingo, not a scrabble…