From: Barbara Malley
[mailto:bbmalley@comcast.net]
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 2:59 PM
To: kkmalley@comcast.net
Subject: 100 POINTS!
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 2:59 PM
To: kkmalley@comcast.net
Subject: 100 POINTS!
You
don’t know it, Kathie, but you just garnered me 100 points, for which I thank you very
much – all due to the Clock Game invented by me and my clock.
I
glanced at the time of your call. It was 2:22. Any three numbers
like that, 1:11, 4:44, 5:55, 6:66 (Whoops, there is no 6:66) are valued
at 100 points.
August
birthdays rate a 10, i.e. 8:04 (Ernestine); 8:08 (Ted); 8:14 (Aunt Janeth);
8:17 (me); 8:21 (my father-in-law); and 8:28 (kkmalley, my darling daughter).
As
much as I’d like to, I can’t ignore 9:11, but I can punish it with a
paltry 1 point for reminding me. Rating five points are numbers like
2:02; 3:03; 4:04 on up to 10:10, 11:11, and 12:12.
As
P. G. Wodehouse would put it, this game may seem silly because it is. By
the way, I find I’m enjoying Plum’s bio, A Life in Letters a lot more
since I abandoned religiously reading every fucking footnote (Sorry,
couldn’t resist the second alliteration).
Love,
Mom
From: Barbara Malley [mailto:bbmalley@comcast.net]
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 3:05 PM
To: kkmalley@comcast.net
Subject: RE: 100 POINTS!
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 3:05 PM
To: kkmalley@comcast.net
Subject: RE: 100 POINTS!
P.S. I just returned to my bedroom to pee (in the
bathroom), looked at the clock, and won 25 points for 3:00. A glance on
my desktop below has delighted me with another 5 points: 3:03.
It’s time to get out my calculator.
XXXOOO
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