When I was 8 years old, I played a game while on vacation.
I was visiting the ocean for the first time. The sand was dry, and as the waves hit the beach, I would see which wave came up highest, and I would put a stick on the high-water mark.
I kept doing this. To my amazement, the record continued to be broken – not by every wave, but within a minute, a new wave would break in a place higher up on t…