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Your support makes all the difference.IT MAY be feasible to mention Scrabble. I play because I have to sit down and think about it. I'm not particularly good or anything, and I haven't got a great use of the English language, but I do my best with certain things.
I usually play with Susie, my wife. I prefer playing with her against another couple, because she's smarter than I am, so I can use her brain to give me good answers.
I have beaten her at it once or twice, which is quite surprising. In fact, that's the good news about it really, I suppose: I am able to beat her at it sometimes.
I probably win by using little words: "id", and all those ones like that. It isn't often that I get the whole hand down. Susie tends to draw nicer chips than I do, and I would think that overall, she probably wins a bit more than me. Anyway, the point is, neither of us beats the other all the time, so it works out rather well.
I am quite competitive, and Susie says I'm a bad loser. I lost my temper in Morocco once. I got pretty upset because she'd been sitting on one of the chips. I would think that it was quite on purpose. On that occasion, we were with a couple of friends of ours, and she was obviously playing against me with the other person's wife. I have a quite serious sense-of-humour failure when something like that happens.
We don't play Scrabble at home. Playing properly takes quite a bit of thought and it's difficult to find the time when we can sit down and play it together. So I suppose the other good news about it is that when we do play, we're on holiday.
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