WSJ reports: Group of Men Have Played Game of Tag for 23
Years; Hiding in Bushes, Cars....Earlier this month, Brian Dennehy started a new job as chief
marketing officer of Nordstrom Inc. JWN +0.27% In his first week, he pulled
aside a colleague to ask a question: How hard it is for a nonemployee to enter
the building? Mr. Dennehy doesn't have a
particular interest in corporate security. He just doesn't want to be
"It." Mr. Dennehy and nine of
his friends have spent the past 23 years locked in a game of "Tag."
It started in high school when they spent their morning
break darting around the campus of Gonzaga
Preparatory School in Spokane , Wash.
The game they play is fundamentally the same as the
schoolyard version: One player is "It" until he tags someone else.
But men in their 40s can't easily chase each other around the playground, at least
not without making people nervous, so this tag has a twist. There are no
geographic restrictions and the game is live for the entire month of February.
The last guy tagged stays "It" for the year.
That means players get tagged at work and in bed. They form
alliances and fly around the country. Wives are enlisted as spies and
assistants are ordered to bar players from the office…..
"You're like a deer or elk in hunting season,"
says Joe Tombari, a high-school teacher in Spokane , who sometimes locks the door of his
classroom during off-periods and checks under his car before he gets near it…..
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