First farang to play

Many of you may remember my brief entrance in to the world of competitive rock, paper, scissors competition. And many of you may have believed the skills I gained through that training were wasting away never to be used again. Well you would be wrong. Today my talents and finely honed strategy came in to play as I was a dominating factor in an office "look over your shoulder" game.

A whole group a people came in to the office today to promote some sort of fitness campaign. I suppose they figured the best way to promote fitness was to give away posters and stickers and have some fierce competition. They took two groups of four volunteers and somehow I became one of them. One person from each team would stand back to back and on the count of three look over one shoulder. One person's goal was to face the other person the other's was to not end up face to face. The losing person would be eliminated and another team member of the loser's team would have to face the winner. This would continue until one team was gone. I was the first person up for my team. On the count of three I looked left to see the shame of defeat in my opponent's eyes and hear the cheers of the office. That's when my training set in. I used the classic RPS strategy of "your opponent will assume you'll change," but this being a more simple game, the strategy boiled down to not changing where you look. So I kept looking to the left, eliminating the next two opponents. Now with one person left standing between me and a free shirt, I choked and broke right. Luckily my remaining teammates finished off the last person. I thought the free shirt was now mine! But they were running low and forced us to turn on our own team mates for one last round. I couldn't bring myself to battle whole-heartedly with someone once on my side and I lost. As I walked back to my desk defeated yet somewhat glad to know I at least helped, the team of promotional people caught up with me. They said I was the first farang (foreigner) to play the game and gave me the green Tesco polo I was working for and we took a picture that's going up on the Tesco website. I'll add the picture when I have it. All in all not a bad break from work in the middle of the day and I will be proudly wearing my trophy tomorrow.