Throng of Friends Rally to Help Gary Find his Marbles
"I lost my marbles!" Gary exclaimed in a near fever-pitch frenzy as he rallied all his dorm buddies from their quiet collegiate slumber.
"Josh! Clint! Armitage! You know how I get without my F***ING MARBLES!" he pleaded, now in complete hysterics.
Gary Choad, an avid white piece only chess player and current resident assistant at UVA (University of Virginia), has had a fascination with little balls his whole life. And his prized marbles--housed in a white velvet sack and monogrammed with his own initials--are known to friends and family alike as 'off limits'.
We talked to some of Gary's compatriots to see how the hunt was coming and to ask if they were forming a study group later.
"We haven't been this pumped since a Gap opened on campus," one searcher said cheerily. "Even...