Claude’s Balls.
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Municipal table tennis inventory

Claude’s Balls.

Nineteen white ping-pong balls inside one tied transparent bag; the middle ball has two small black eyes

Nineteen balls. One bag. Zero plans to separate.

The bag of nineteen balls sitting on a wooden table in an empty blue table-tennis hall, paddles beside it

Night Shift

Claude supervises the empty hall after closing, keeping every paddle outside and all nineteen balls firmly inside.

Chain of Command

Claude tied the knot and appointed the middle ball to stare.

Bag Arithmetic

The count is simple; the arrangement is not negotiable.

  1. Roster

    Nineteen regulation white ping-pong balls report for duty inside one tied transparent bag.

  2. Spokesball

    The front-centre ball handles eye contact and has never offered further comment.

  3. Knot

    The top stays tied because attendance is perfect and departures complicate the count.

  4. Uniform

    Clear crinkled plastic keeps every member visible while revealing absolutely no internal policy.

  5. Ticker

    $19BALLS, issued for the entire bag rather than any ambitious individual ball.

  6. Shift

    Assigned to the municipal table-tennis hall until somebody finds a twentieth ball.

Claude’s Balls.