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John,
My mom had a call on her cell phone from my dad on her way to pick him up at the Subaru
dealership yesterday afternoon saying that he had taken the technician for a ride and he
couldn’t see anything wrong with the car so he just told my dad to pay close attention while
driving the car to make sure its problems don’t get worse. When my mom got to the dealership,
they drove both vehicles and parked the Subaru in the parking lot at Willowbrook Mall then they
both took the Honda and drove to the casino in Langley. They didn’t have much luck there so they
picked up the Subaru and then they took both vehicles to the casino in Cloverdale hoping that
their luck would be better at that one. They didn’t have much luck at either casino and it
seemed like all the other people at both casinos were having good luck at the times my parents
were at them. After the one in Cloverdale, my mom drove home while my dad went and picked up my
Chinese food from Safeway. I had it for my supper last night and I will have what’s leftover for
my supper tonight. My dad got home only a few minutes after you left. There was quite a bit of
time before 4:30 and after you left yesterday, it was a coincidence that my mom got home a bit
earlier than the time she usually does even though she didn’t know until after she got home that
you had an emergency. And it was a good thing she got home early so that you could get to your
emergency sooner. I hope that Prince is okay speaking about whom.
CHAPTER TWO - SMART MOUTH
Here are the letters we wrote down that we couldn't figure out:
B
KK - My mom thought of "kayak" (another palindrome word ).
KS
KW
NG
OW
PB - My mom thought of "plumb."
RA
YB
YC
First, you send me all the words you come up with "YC," "YB," "RA," "OW," and other words that
start with "P" and end in "B" then I'll E-mail you with what else we come up with on the other
five.
We looked at the rulebook and it says that we're allowed to use plurals (words that end
in "s") in "basic Smart Mouth," but to make the game harder it says that we could eliminate
them. I would assume myself that we should make the game harder when we play by eliminating the
plurals. My mom thinks that words ending with "ing," "ed," and "er" are allowed however. So
therefore, you could have used "ending."
BR - banister, barrister, beaker, binocular, blender, and LOL booger
And I guess now we know we would have been allowed to use "“baker:”
> > ...guess which word i'm going to use when i see the letters br...
>
> I know it might not be “baker” because that’s noun for “bake.” ...
I will attach some excerpts from the rulebook to the end of this message.
That was a joke when I said "I guess the loser goes first"...LOL...you seriously
thought that I was in the wrong game there.
I remember Carol, the teacher's assistant who goes to school five days per week, getting
stumped when I use to play this game with her. We probably got stumped a lot more times though
when you and I played. I do remember having to bring out the dictionary lots of times when Carol
played this with me. It seems like the first of the three games we played yesterday (the
one that we just flew through) we hardly got stumped and I banged off words right away most
times, but I think the final game had the biggest amount of times we got stumped.
CHAPTER THREE - Fraser Valley Mental Health Support Team
I told my mom after you left yesterday that when I told you the name of the nurse who came to
my house the day before, that name didn’t sound familiar to you. She then said that my dad
talked to a nurse at one time named Jennifer before the other one came to my house. Could this
be the one you know? My mom also asked me if you met the physiatrist, I never thought to ask you
about him. His name is Dr. Mcgibbon, even though we don’t quite know how to spell his name
correctly.
CHAPTER FOUR – Our next two visits
We already decided that you’ll come on Monday (the 21st) and you can also come again
next Thursday the 24th, 1PM both visits.
Maybe on Monday we could drive to the Dairy Queen and I could start my onion ring taste-test.
There are no size medium onion rings at Dairy Queen, they only have small and large so I could
probably get a small onion rings with medium fries and a medium Sprite. And don’t forget to make
sure make sure that I ask for the medium Sprite when they take my order, I never get a drink
when I get either a Banana Split or a Blizzard Treat because I think those things are enough for
one snack but this time I’ll get the Sprite with my onion rings and fries.
And for my snack when you come on the Thursday, maybe we could drive to the McDonald's
(the same location we went to for lunch earlier this last week) and I could get a McDonald's
medium chocolate shake. I remember Carol telling me that her ex-husband was a big fan of
milkshakes. I think that Dairy Queen milkshakes are my preference out of DQ, McDonald's, and
A&W, DQ might have been his favorite too. I also remember being surprised when Carol told me
that DQ was actually around before McDonald's. That was the first I heard when she told me,
until then I had always thought that McDonald's would have been around longer. I know however
that McDonald's was one of the first fast food places around. I think DQ would have been around
before the first A&W opened, I wonder if McDonald's was around though before A&W.
I miss going to Dairy Queen with Carol )
and I’m kind of disappointed that it won’t be her I’ll be doing the onion ring taste-test
with.
CHAPTER FIVE – Valentines Day Shopping & More stuff about living with Carol
Now when you come for your visit on either next Monday the 28th, Thursday the 31st, or
Monday February the 4th, maybe my mom could drive us to the Save-On-Foods store at South Point
and we could pick out my Valentines snacks from the bulk section if I have most of my Christmas
snacks eaten up by then . She could show you what to
get so you’ll know, I’ll bang off a list in one of the next few E-mails I send you. It will
probably depend which one of those three visits I have the most Christmas snacks eaten up by, if
it’s still the end of January and I still have lots of Christmas stuff left then it would
probably make sense to wait a bit until the grocery stores get more selection to choose from in
their bulk sections. I told you in the last two E-mails that I still have lots of Christmas
stuff left to eat.
I remember that you were teaching Scott how to grocery shop and that maybe you’ll have him
doing it on his own pretty soon. If my mom takes us to the South Point Save-On, maybe I could by
one or a couple (depending on the price) lottery tickets at the front of the store which
would be something that I had never done before. Again keep in mind that if I get to live with
Carol I’m aware of the fact that I might have to pay for my own Valentines candy even though it
will probably be paid for with my mom’s money this time:
> ...If I could live with Carol before her birthday which occurs two months after that, I would
treat her to the China kitchen with my
> own money for her birthday dinner... For the last few years, I didn’t have to pay for my
parent’s birthday dinners but since it may
> not sound right that Carol should have to pay for her own birthday dinners (and maybe
also her birthday cakes) I should pay for
> them with my benefits unless we win the lottery or whatever.
And maybe if I were to get my own “Save-On-More Card” someday in the future, then I could
earn points for everything I buy at any Save-On or Price Smart store that could go towards stuff
in the Save-On points catalog that might be helpful if Carol and I live together. Would
especially be helpful if we can’t win the lottery, but if we earn a lot of points and there’s
nothing in the points catalog that would be useful to us then we could always get something
expensive (and something that we have enough points for) from the catalog and then we could
sell it and get the money from it to put towards useful things. I’m aware that it might not be a
lot of money though.
Speaking about Carol’s birthday, I remember that last Christmas wasn’t the only time I
thought about getting her a more expensive gift than what I would usually buy for her:
> ...I think Carol would have also loved a gift like this if I was still seeing her. That was
$40 and I never spent more than $15 on her
> at Christmas or her birthday every year, but remember I have a heart. Anyway, I remember we
got the display cat when we went
> there that day and I’m not sure whether they had anymore put away somewhere or if that was the
only one they had that day.
This is where I talked about the cat that I got for my mom that day my dad and me were at the
Christophers store in Scottsdale Mall. Anyway, I told you in previous E-mails that Carol was
going through a lot of stress around her birthday last year so my mom thought then that maybe a
good thing to get for her would have been a gif card for one of the restaurants. I didn’t like
that idea at the time and thought that it would be a bit more expensive than $15, so for her
birthday present at that time I ended up getting her Carrie Underwood’s new CD (it had
just come out new at that time).
Or if I get brave enough to decide to drop my quirky diet habits, maybe Carol and I could eat
supper out almost everyday if I live with her and we win the lottery. If we could afford to do
so, this would eliminate another thing (cooking) from her chaotic, hectic, and stressful
life. I like getting out to nicer places like White Spot, Moxies, down to the White Rock beach
for supper, etc. That was a joke when my mom said to me a few days after what happened not long
after Christmas that her (my mom) and me should go to White Spot and then each of us could have
a chocolate shake with a piece of the “Chocolate Passion Cake” so that we could get big huge
disaster stomach aches to take are minds off of being stressed after what happened. I told you
before that seriously I prefer the “Triple Chocolate Torte” from Safeway because that piece of
three-layer choclate cake didn’t seem to bother my stomach as badly as the White Spot one. If I
ever have one of the White Sport slices of chocolate cake again, I’ll probably just eat half. I
can eat a whole Safeway piece no problem and my stomach still won’t be bothered as much as if I
were to eat a whole White Spot one.
CHAPTER SIX – One more thing...
One more thing, John... Lend me an orange.
-Neil
P.S. No, actually let’s make that either LM4O or LM4Os
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PS2. This little guy means "frown:"
PS3. Here are those excerpts that I promised you:
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BEFORE YOU GET STARTED:
Place letter tiles---one per player---face down. Any color will do. Each player picks a
tile.
The player with the letter closest to A becomes the Dealer. The Dealer plays too.
The dealer shuffles each color set of 36 tiles and loads the two columns of tiles
letter-side up into the Letter Getter.
HOW TO PLAY:
The dealer operates the Letter Getter by sliding it back and forth...
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We can ignore the “BEFORE YOU GET STARTED” and all the other stuff in the above excerpt
because I think we have a pretty good system of our own where you shuffle and I operate the
Letter Getter. Carol always shuffled and I always operated the Letter Getter, that’s the way we
always did it every time she and me played this game in the past.
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But What If...What if two players shout out valid words at the same time? What if no one can
come up with any word at all? What if there’s a dispute and things are
getting nasty? In any of these situations, the dealer throws both tiles into
a Bonus Pile. The letters in the Bonus Pile are awarded to the next player
who is first to call out a valid answer to the next challenge.
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That’s basic Smart Mouth, but there are infinite ways to get
creative with the format of the game. You can come up with your own rules to
make the game harder, easier, or just more interesting (but stick to English
language dictionary please, unless you decide on a variation like Bogus Bluff
or another language). For example, your gaming group could agree upon
limitations like these, or try some of the game variations that follow...
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“Basic Smart Mouth” is the game format that we’ve been playing, just with the exception of
not using plurals in order to make the game harder. I think it’s good exercise for our brains by
making the game harder.
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