I am playing Scrabble on Facebook with random strangers. I have no life, shoot me now.<\/p>\n
How did things come to this sorry state of affairs?<\/p>\n
I blame Soph. Obv.<\/p>\n
A couple of weeks ago Soph complained that she couldn’t get no<\/span> any Scrabble action.<\/p>\n Yes she tried. And she tried. And she tried oh God she tried. But she couldn’t…<\/p>\n Sorry, I seem to have drifted off in to a world of my own for a moment.<\/p>\n Anyway.<\/p>\n So I said ‘That’s OK dear,’ (or something similar). ‘We can play each other.’<\/p>\n Sigh.<\/p>\n Never, ever offer to play your other half at Scrabble.<\/p>\n It’s like putting an axe in their hands, laying your head on the chopping block and saying, in a cheery voice, ‘You just feel free to lop it off, when you’re good and ready!’.<\/p>\n There will be a whoosh in the air, followed by a heavy thunk, and your head will briefly take on a life of its own.<\/p>\n Or in my case, she will win the first game by a small margin<\/span> thrash the living daylights out of me.<\/p>\n Like a fool, you’ll toss your hat in to the ring a second time and this time she doesn’t win, as such.<\/p>\n She kicks your cute little arse all over the world of Scrabble.<\/p>\n Humiliated, you have at it again.<\/p>\n She wins.<\/p>\n You are hooked on a spiral of desperation. The more you play, the bigger your trail of losses.<\/p>\n An almost toxic level of desperation blends with a feeling of frustration that’s approaching escape velocity and, like a crack addict long overdue your fix, you sneak on to Facebook and you start…<\/p>\n Seeking out strangers for a game.<\/p>\n Gingerly, at first, but with increasing confidence, you sit in the Facebook Scrabble zone pouncing on the profile of people who look as though they might be easy prey.<\/p>\n From inside your head, your need for a fix – the driving desire for a kill<\/span> win – begins to scream at you.<\/p>\n You hit on random strangers, adding them to your pile of potential victims, like notches on some kind of a virtual bedpost.<\/p>\n You juggle multiple games, trying to remember the potential moves from each game, as you switch from opponent to opponent.<\/p>\n And that’s how you end up like me.<\/p>\n Getting my arse whipped in so many games of Scrabble, it’s embarrassing.<\/p>\n Heed my warning.<\/p>\n Stay away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am playing Scrabble on Facebook with random strangers. I have no life, shoot me now. How did things come to this sorry state of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}