Chess Tournament

In Brooklyn there are graduation parties for completing all levels of schooling...not to mention parties for any other random occasion. We're a party crowd! So today was a graduation party for a little girl from our Kingdom Hall who will be going on to first grade next year....yes it was Kindergarten Graduation Party. I understand that these are becoming more and more popular all around the globe, but New York was the first place I knew of that practiced and still practice it.

So I'm there, I'm enjoying myself amoung all the munchkins...we're eating, we're talking, we're playing miniture pool (which is pool only with billiard balls the size of ping pong balls), then it's musical chairs. Alright we let the kids have their fun and they frantically jump into their chairs until the very last little boy finally pushes his enemy(a girl) out of the way of the open seat.He's the Man. He's king. He's Lord Of The Chairs.

But that's not all. The grown-ups want to get in on it and yes they make sure that none of the little tikes got in the way by expressly excluding them from this all too important round of Musical Chairs. So as "Groove Is In The Heart" is switched off and on, I am looking at a line filled with fellow pioneers, Ministerial Servants, Elders, and other "mature" giants of our congregation scampering for an open chair...some falling flat on their...backs. But at last my dearest Steph won and not without a little shout of "IN YOUR FACE!!!"...I love my congregation. These are some REAL people here!

As that is going on, I'm occupying my time teaching a little girl checkers. This of course is like honey to bees for three other kids line up for their "turn" after her. So I speed through the next little girl and let her beat me so that the little boy, who I'd say is about 11 years old, can play CHESS with me. I'm thinking, sure this is gonna be a breeze. We'll play for about 5 minutes and then onto the next unfortunate Bobby Fischer wanna-be. But no! I get took in three, Three, THREE MOVES! The kid moves his pawn, I move mine, he moves another pawn, I move another pawn, he moves his queen and announces "CHECK MATE"...I'm like WHAT THE....WHAT??????? And I laugh in utter embarassment. Yup talk about IN YOUR FACE! I be schooled! But then he's like, that was too easy I wanna play again. So this time we play a good 25 minute game and it's close...so close that by the end I was hanging on with only one pawn and my king while he still harbored an entire army..mostly pawns. Then he gets bored and calls a draw cuz I was fighting HARD! No little 11 year old is gonna beat me this easily. Truth is if he didn't call a draw, he would've won eventually. Hats off to Alex...he's only been playing for a year and he's awesome!

So just to announce the winners of my contest: Matt Dellaquila gets Monday(and not even cuz he posted only because I am a woman of my word and I promised him a "Matty Monday") ; Jess-my sis- won Tuesday; Joel- my older bro- won Wednesday; Nola won Thursday; and Simon just barely made it to claim Friday.

Oh and the answer to yesterday's question is: most would rather be a lunatic since it is only a monthly occurance(thus the root word 'luna' which means moon) whereas an idiot is actually a level in a classification system for mental retardation(a system which is no longer in use because it's lacking in P.C.) from which one can not recover. Lunacy is only temporary.

A Perfect End To The Day....