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This has never happened before and will probably not happen again for quite a long time. Tuesday night I was playing Scrabble with the Felon. I may be a good speller with a decent vocabulary, but I have no strategy skills when it comes to Scrabble. As such, I usually lose, but not that night.
It was my turn and I was about to put down a shorter word when I looked at my letters again and it dawned on me that I had a seven-letter word and what was more, I had a place to put all seven of those letters, and what was even more, it involved a Triple Word Score. That got me about seventy points and put me squarely in the lead. For joy! The Felon, however, was less than pleased and decided that she was going to give me a hard time about my word, which was "treatise". We didn't have a bound dictionary on hand (my enormous...and I mean enormous...dictionary is up in the attic with a ton of my books that I wish I had room for down here on the second floor) and the internet was being funky that night so we couldn't go to dictionary.com. I gave her a pretty concise definition and used the word in a sentence, but she was still suspect. This all resulted in her being bitchy for the rest of the game and continually threatening that if, when she got home, she couldn't find that word in any of the dictionaries in her house, she was going to go back and change the score and blablabla jealouscakes! I suppose I could have just switched the letters around and put down "treaties" as a means of avoiding further conflict, but I cannot abide poor losers.
It was my turn and I was about to put down a shorter word when I looked at my letters again and it dawned on me that I had a seven-letter word and what was more, I had a place to put all seven of those letters, and what was even more, it involved a Triple Word Score. That got me about seventy points and put me squarely in the lead. For joy! The Felon, however, was less than pleased and decided that she was going to give me a hard time about my word, which was "treatise". We didn't have a bound dictionary on hand (my enormous...and I mean enormous...dictionary is up in the attic with a ton of my books that I wish I had room for down here on the second floor) and the internet was being funky that night so we couldn't go to dictionary.com. I gave her a pretty concise definition and used the word in a sentence, but she was still suspect. This all resulted in her being bitchy for the rest of the game and continually threatening that if, when she got home, she couldn't find that word in any of the dictionaries in her house, she was going to go back and change the score and blablabla jealouscakes! I suppose I could have just switched the letters around and put down "treaties" as a means of avoiding further conflict, but I cannot abide poor losers.