I forgot every trick I learned in the last two years

Sukkottosan invited me to try again a couple of days later, and the results were only marginally better. One of the guys my age brought his three year old son, so I practiced my chinese with him. He's way better at colors than me, but I'm pretty good at counting. I stacked up some water bottles and practiced ** *****s and was doing about as well as regular ones.  I went out cruising on my own afterwards, but without much confidence in any tricks.