I laughed and laughed when I read about your scrabble game and R being pissed off. Maybe all this word/scrabble/crossword stuff that Dad and I have going has got into you by osmosis! Remember, never sacrifice an ‘S’ for just one word unless it gets you trillions of points, use blanks wisely, make more than one word on as many turns as possible and know all the cute little 2-letter words (good ones are: JO, ZA, QI and 117 others!!!)
My mother, Scrabble queen extraordinaire, passing on valuable advice in an email to my backpacking baby sister.