The score written on the wrong side
An original account of an invented table-tennis match.
We were using a small board to record the table-tennis score. After the players changed ends, I continued writing the points on the same sides of the board. A spectator asked why the player nearest us had suddenly lost three points. Nobody had lost anything; my board no longer matched the positions at the table.
The umpire asked me to put the players' names above the numbers. We could then keep the score attached to a person rather than to the end where that person happened to stand. It was a simple change, but it prevented the next switch from causing the same confusion. I stopped treating a position as if it were a name.
What did the umpire ask the narrator to add above the scores?
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