Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Hate at First Slight
I knew I shouldn't have played a game of Scrabble (actually, Lexulous) before heading off to my job this morning. But normally, a game of Lexulous relaxes me.
Here's the bizarre exchange during this morning's game with someone whose user name is "pazienza":
Pazienza played some short word to start off.
I bingoed off that word, spelling "basenji."
Pazienza countered with another bingo, which I was able to turn to my advantage by playing "zoa" on a triple word score.
I noticed pazienza had written something in the chat box. It said, "An obvious Scrabble bot."
I had no idea what pazienza was talking about, so I wrote, "?"
Pazienza responded, "you."
Well, I was flummoxed! My knee-jerk reaction was to write, "Basenji is SUCH a common word." But I paused to cool down, refused to let myself sink to pazienza's level, and wrote instead, "Yup, I guess I am."
That could have been the end of it, but THEN pazienza wrote, "Last time well play," which it took me a minute to figure out meant "It's the last time we'll play."
I should have adjourned right then! Players hate it when their opponent adjourns, as opposed to resigning, because nobody gets the rating points. Unfortunately, I didn't think of it. Suppressing an intense urge to use a very bad epithet, I wrote, "If that's what you want," hoping that pazienza could nonetheless infer the word I'd left off the end of the sentence.
What a jerk! The kicker is that when we were down to the last tiles, I was ahead by 50 points but ran out of time!
If anyone out there has any ideas how I can make pazienza's life absolutely miserable from now on, please let me know. I'm looking for something clever and untraceable.
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