We Wuz Robbed, Guv!

Pub quiz tonight, and they're announcing the winners: "So X were third with 45 points, and Y were second with 48", so we're pretty confident of being the winner. "And some other team entirely won with 50". I look at the other two, and we're all convinced we got more than 45, so off Pete shoots to question the result.

He's back in 5 minutes, "Yeah, we won, we had 54, but whoever marked it had scored it as 44* and they missed it when they checked. They don't want to change it, so they'll give us all a free drink instead."

And in fact that turns out to be two free drinks next time, I'll take that.

Of course that's assuming there is a next time. They'll be starting early to get us done by the new closing time of 10PM, but we'll see.

* The music round is 10 questions, each with one point for tune and one for band**, but it had been marked as one point for the two, which docked us 10 points in a not immediately obvious way.

** And I'm doing well if I get 2 points out of the 20, fortunately the others are much better at it than I am.