When I was a camp counselor at the age of 20, I participated in a camp-wide hide-and-go-seek tournament which had a scoring system, hundreds of participants, and spread out over a few acres of forest. For the most part, the boys and young men alike hid themselves without expertise, mostly in small groups. I walked a hundred yards off a trail and crawled into the thickest patch of shrubs and fallen branches I could find. For about 30 minutes I laid there, listening to boys scream and holler as they found each other. The relaxation of not having to work got the better of me, and even after things got quiet and I knew the game was over, I kept lying there.
A different sort of counselor once told me, unrelated to this story, "the game of hide and seek can be a lot of fun, until people stop looking for you." This was one of his better lines. He had several.
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