It was so hot when I left, I took Uber to work today. I had no problem getting there. The driver arrived in 9 minutes and got there just in time. Going home was harder. I had to run through two drivers before I could find one who would take me home. At least he picked me up in 7 minutes. No traffic either way.
I was not up to work today. I'm tired from having been up way too late to work on notes, and I had a massive sinus headache. I think I'm coming down with a cold. Plus, there's the heat. It hit 99 today here, and will get up to 100 for the next few days. Though we weren't that busy (we're between holidays and events, and there's a lot of other things people would rather do in the heat), I did have to clean up a mess in the bathrooms and gather carts. I got so hot and tired by the end of the day, I spent the last hour doing returns inside (even though there wasn't that much to do).
Oh, and though I got my schedule yesterday, I confirmed it today. Yes, I have to work during the worst of the heat. Tuesday is the only day during the heat wave I have off. At least Monday and Wednesday are early days. The head bagger took Monday off. Honestly, if I still feel this lousy tomorrow, I might end up calling out.
Took a much-needed shower when I got home, then grabbed dinner and finished with tonight's YouTube Match Game marathon. Tie breakers were fairly common on the show. More often than not, two contestants wouldn't score at all, and the panel and an exasperated Gene would keep playing until someone finally did. This resulted in several episodes that had so many tie breakers, they wouldn't even get to the Super Match.
Frankly, it made the show move slow as molasses...which is likely why, by the time of the syndicated episodes, they'd created the Sudden Death tiebreaker. The contestants write down the answer to a question on two tablets, then Richard, Brett, and Charles (the whole panel, in later years) try to guess the answer. This had its own problems, but it worked well enough to carry through to Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour. Probably the most infamous use of this was in a 1978 nighttime episode, Richard's last. The contestants were so hapless, Charles matched each of them once, then matched the man again on that tie.
Of course, sometimes, people just got a little tied up on this show. Richard once tied up Betty with tape on a 1976 episode. Gene wound his microphone cable around a contestant and danced off with her during a syndicated episode.
Get tied up in the wacky antics of the panelists and some pretty crazy tie breakers in this wild marathon!
Oh and here's my review of The Muppets...and look for Muppets Most Wanted next week!
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