Words with "Friends"

So I got sucked into this disgusting game. Everyone else was doing it, so I thought I should too. I however forgot three very important facts about myself when I stepped into this "game".

1. I hate scrabble
2. I can't spell
3. I am not a graceful loser

So I see everyone playing and I say, I don't want to miss out, everyone loves this game. So I say, "Hey Gabe, come play this game with me, because I won't feel bad when you kick my ass."

We have somehow started 3 games at once, and I am playing one with a stranger. I don't really know how this happened, but whatever. It's going well at first. I play an 8 point word, he plays 5 point word. I play a 5 point word, he plays a 10 point word. It's pretty even. Then all of the sudden he goes all Rain Man on me and starts playing shit like Zebras and Quixotic on triple word score boxes. And it's not just in one game, it's all of them. I'm playing shit like "Car" and "Ore". But it's ok, the night is young and so is the game.

Cut to 11:55 pm. I am now staring bleary eyed at my monitor just wanting the pain to end. I've just spent 20 minutes agonizing over a move and end up playing "Air". Meanwhile that scrabble savant is going "Blip blip bloop...ba-ding*" then giggles like a fiend and says, "Holy shit, that's a word!"

*Ba-ding is the chime noise that signals they have accepted your bullshit word.

Exhibit A:

Red are my world-rocking contributions, Blue is Gabe pretty much just playing by himself:

It's now 12:15, I have to be up in 5 hours. I declare in a pout, "You're beating me by 100 points in every game!"

Gabe: "No! In the one game it's 142  to 108."

Me: (Continuing my pout) "Oooh, so you're only beating me by 40 points."

Gabe: "34 points"

Me: "Yeah, go ahead, point out I suck at math too! Why don't you criticize my penmanship as well!"

If this was a real scrabble game it would be at this point I would flip the board and storm out. But it's on my laptop. It's less dramatic to flip that since the tiles wouldn't fly up everywhere...and I like my laptop.

I have decided I'm going to start a new app game. It will be a combo of Angry Birds and Words with Friends. I'm going to call it Angry Words. I'm good at that game. I haven't figured all of the logistics yet, but I am thinking somehow it will involve slingshots and letter tiles.

Gabe: "Come on - don't pout."

"I'm not pouting" I said with a pout. "It's fine, just wait until we play the real thinking mans game...then I'll own you."

Gabe: "Chess?"

Me: "No, 'Scene It? Deluxe Friends Edition'."