doodledee

The other night after our lawn bowling game ended, the referee girl came over and talked to us for a minute or two. We were the last game of the night and she was trying to figure out the new standings for our division.

Before the game, we were tied at 2-0 with the team from TCF Bank. For reasons that I assumed were purely alphabetical, our team was listed above TCF up on the big standings board.

This week, both the TCF team and our team won, improving to 3-0. (Note: we made a historic comeback against some accountants from Ernst & Young.) I figured we'd remain atop the leader board for another week, but the referee explained that the tiebreaker isn't actually your team name, rather, it's based on the total number of points you've beaten your opponents by over the whole season.

"Oh", I say, "you just add up the deltas from week to week, then?"

"Uhh," she says, "isn't Delta an airline?"

"Geek!" says JoePa.

After she took off, we had a debate about the use of 'delta' in everyday conversation. I say it's perfectly acceptable. Everyone else said I was a doof. Funny how that works.