Tournaments

 As I have stated earlier, there was some downtime at White Oak.  The staff had to be on call in case something was needed, but we also had to pass the time to avoid total boredom.  So, we did a lot of things.  Two of them involved tournaments.
 During the summer, there were at least three or four staff people that hung around at night to handle things, while the director and his wife slept.  One of the things we did was to have Scrabble tournaments.  We would usually do two-person games, and the winner would play someone else, until we had a Scrabble champion for that night.  Some of the staff would try and cheat by making up words to get higher scores.  This practice bothered me, so I bought a Scrabble dictionary.  It came in very handy, although some of the staff didn't like the idea.  For them, cheating was more fun.
 The other tournament was one we invented.  The administration building had several rooms.  There was the main area; a first aid room; a canteen; a bookstore; the director's office; and a storage room.  We got bats and whiffle balls, and we put together an 18-hole golf course inside the administration building.  18 spots within that building.  Each spot was a hole.  Some of them were more challenging than others.  For example, one hole was in the sink in the first aid room.  You had to loft your ball into the sink.  However, you could hit your ball against a wall and get it to bounce into the sink.  That was the easier way to play that hole.  The golf game had to be nixed after one night, when the director's wife came up to the canteen to get something to drink.  We had not expected her.  She saw us playing the game, and she hit the roof.  She found dark spots on the walls, where our balls had hit.  Let's just say that the golf game ended that night.  Thanks to White Oak being a Christian assembly, no cuss words were spoken by her, but the look on her face said quite enough.
 So, we went back to playing Scrabble.  Golf was more fun.