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The trials and tribulations of being a Scrabble player.

I am a SCRABBLE fan. No, I don't play it to championship standard. Searching for really arcane words such as Ud, Ip and the like really don't do it for me. Just the straight forward family game.

But I also love using the little SCRABBLE tiles for perhaps my favourite pass time of all - anagrams. All the world's rich and famous have unwittingly supplied me with hundreds of names to play with, and I have literally thousands of these computations all achieved by the use of my little yellow tiles.

Now the best place to anagram I believe, is in bed. What better place to finish off the day with a good laugh? (Some of my efforts can be really naughty, you see). But let that be for the moment. I must tell you about the curious case of my knickers.

The other morning I took out a pair of clean knickers from the drawer. Drawers from the drawer. No sooner had I put them on than I felt a strange discomfort under the fabric at my derriere - something small and hard was lurking there! Fumbling around under the elastic (and to my great amusement) I pulled out a SCRABBLE tile!

HOW THE HELL DID A SCRABBLE TILE GET INTO MY KNICKERS?

Well may you ask - it took me some time to fathom it out! The solution is this...

Being quite an organised person, I roll my clean knickers up before placing them in the drawer. This procedure is often done on the bed, the bed on which the anagrams are born. Often I have woken in the morning with a little tile stuck to my back - a la Princess and the Pea - and I can only assume that a rogue tile had got rolled into my knickers before being put away - voila!

Later I spoke to my cousin on the phone and giggling, told him of this amusing occurrence. His immediate riposte - was it a 'P'?!!

More laughs. No actually it was a 'Y'! Y indeed?