Saturday, February 27, 2010

Foul! Foul! I call FOUL!!

I just need to talk about Scrabble. What better audience than this one? (probably literally one)

So there is this person. I will not name any names but their initials are T.H.E.D.E.V.I.L. We have played Scrabble together for quite some time. We had a little hiatus when this person was away from the desk for a couple of months, but when they returned, I started a fresh list, showing who won and who lost each and every game. It was important to me because I am insane and I needed to win more than I lost and the obsessive/compulsive portion of my brain needed desperately to keep a record separate from my other Scrabble opponents. I'm posting a picture here of my little list, started on an Amitiza note pad, which, by the way was free, given to me by a friendly drug rep.
When the first page got full, I taped another page to it. If you can tell at all, down at about the 16th game, when the score was 12 to 4 in my favor, T.H.E.D.E.V.I.L. started naming the games with the score, but started at 7 to 0. Beej 7 and T.H.E.D.E.V.I.L. 0. What the what?? No, no, no. I don't think so. I told this person that was incorrect. They did not care about my thoughts in the least. I was mortified and still am.

All of this was to say that I need to add a new page to my list, but the more I think about it, the more I think I should just bow out gracefully. It's making me mean and angry. I don't think I'm normally a mean and angry person. On the other hand, maybe it's building character. But hey, I feel like I have plenty of character without being called a heifer or being forced to look at a score that I know in my heart of hearts is just baloney. Madness!

"What to do? What to do?" she said as she taped another page to the bottom of the list and started drawing lines. I'll guess I'll just go ahead and fill in this next line with the name of the new game T.H.E.D.E.V.I.L. just started. "Gonna Catch Up 15-11" (my big fat hiney! it's 21-14!).

(Click the pic for a big version. I did erase some stuff to keep the identity of T.H.E.D.E.V.I.L. a secret.)

9 comments:

Paul Mitchell said...

This is funny. You are so mean.

Beej said...

I knoooooooow! And I almost don't even feel bad...

Anonymous said...

Nothing wrong w a tiny bit of OCD. Or a lot...

Duble said...

this si why you should play online, you can still keep record and it doesn't require much work.
but that being said my chess record on yahoo is 1213-2130-139 I need to have a winning streak to get over .500

Herb said...

You are playing with thedevil and don't understand why there are lies and insults?

brandy101 said...

actual scrabble or lexulous or???

I'll play you in a game anytime. Although somehow I never get game notifications; that's why I am almost always the last to finish the word twist games!

Beej said...

It's facebook scrabble brandy.

Anonymous said...

So this is ONLINE scrabble? Where it keeps score for you? How is there a discrepancy? Girls, is playin, that's how... Makes my bowels irritable...anybody got a recommendation for that?

Deirdre said...

Silly.