I won! I WON!

The group came back in after lunch. They were on a creative training day to help them with teaching skills. It was going well.

Having introduced themselves in a round robin manner, they had spent the rest of the day playing games and colouring pictures. Several people thought it was all a stupid waste of time, like being back at nursery again, hardly fitting for a group of 11 PhD students. Dave loved it, it was like being back at nursey again! He didn't know a PhD got so good.

Lunch had also not been seen in the most favorable of lights.

"What is this stuff?" one person had commented on the insides of his sandwich, "I think it's suppose to be beef..."

Yes, they where awful sandwiches to go with the less than fantastic tea and biscuits, but these people seemed to forget the important aspect. They were FREE. As such, Dave helped himself to several platefulls and since he didn't drink tea he cut back to only 3 cups. Yum.

The session had started again and the group gathered to play Bingo. Human Bingo. The rules of Human Bingo are very much the same as the regular kind, only you are given a sheet full of descriptions like "I've never been to an Ice Rink" and then you have to find a person in the group who matches that description. Match all the descriptions in a line and you win a line, match all of them and you win a full house.

It was a tense game, everyone asking everyone else all these strange things, each desperate to win the grand prize. Finally someone shouted "HOUSE!"

...it was Dave. Dave had done it. He'd won first prize. A set of cheap pens!!!! A whole set!!! From black to pink, the complete range!!!

Everyone tried to hide there envy but Dave could feel it burning in there eyes. When the day finally finished, he packed the pens quickly into his bag and made for the door. He had to watch his back.

Luckily, no attempt was made on his life this time and he was left in peace to savor the moment.

"I won! I WON!!!!"