Define Stubborn
8/6/17 - It rained on Monday morning and Tuesday a bit more,
The next day the sun peeked out but then began to pour.
Thursday’s rainstorms came down hard; Friday’s an encore,
Weekend’s forecast was to shine, but gave what came before.
By: Lee St. John
All this rain makes me want to write, read (especially English novels for some reason), and play board games. We were with friends playing Scrabble not too long ago and I hope we still are friends after the night we had in their home and the fallout soon after.
Hubby and I were playing against another couple. With only four letters left, I played on a triple word score square the word ‘JIVE’. And with that move, I used ALL my letters. Hubby and I won. Game over.
Our male host was going to have none of it. He said, “There is no such word as ‘jive’.” His wife agreed with us that there was such a word. We looked to see if the word could be found in the dictionary using our iphones. And there it was. But the host retrieved his family dictionary from their book shelf, with a copyright older than 1973, and could not find it. He then pulled out the rules of the game and read them to us with this statement, “If a word cannot be found in the HOST’s dictionary, it is not a word.”
Because of this squabble, our evening came to an end. We left but I wasn’t about to let this go. The host was a very smart man and won a lot of arguments so I wondered if I could trip him up. I hatched a plan. You know the saying, “Don’t get mad; get even.”
This Scrabble-playing couple was in our dinner club and another evening of dinner and conviviality was coming up soon. Among the other four couples were our associate pastor and his wife. I called our friends and begged them to please incorporate the word ‘jive’ into their normal conversation that evening especially when chatting with our Scrabble male host. For instance, “We saw a ‘jive’ of a movie last week.” “I started ‘jiving’ when my favorite song came on my car radio.” Our pastor always blessed the food before we ate and I suggested he could say, “Bless this ‘jiving’ food.”
And they did.
I watched for any sign of the board-game-player’s face when ‘jive’ came out of the mouths of our dinner club participants without his knowledge of the ruse. Then the light bulb moment must have come on. He realized he had been had.
He looked over at me and said, “You win!”
My stubbornness and the rain have something in common.
The next day the sun peeked out but then began to pour.
Thursday’s rainstorms came down hard; Friday’s an encore,
Weekend’s forecast was to shine, but gave what came before.
By: Lee St. John
All this rain makes me want to write, read (especially English novels for some reason), and play board games. We were with friends playing Scrabble not too long ago and I hope we still are friends after the night we had in their home and the fallout soon after.
Hubby and I were playing against another couple. With only four letters left, I played on a triple word score square the word ‘JIVE’. And with that move, I used ALL my letters. Hubby and I won. Game over.
Our male host was going to have none of it. He said, “There is no such word as ‘jive’.” His wife agreed with us that there was such a word. We looked to see if the word could be found in the dictionary using our iphones. And there it was. But the host retrieved his family dictionary from their book shelf, with a copyright older than 1973, and could not find it. He then pulled out the rules of the game and read them to us with this statement, “If a word cannot be found in the HOST’s dictionary, it is not a word.”
Because of this squabble, our evening came to an end. We left but I wasn’t about to let this go. The host was a very smart man and won a lot of arguments so I wondered if I could trip him up. I hatched a plan. You know the saying, “Don’t get mad; get even.”
This Scrabble-playing couple was in our dinner club and another evening of dinner and conviviality was coming up soon. Among the other four couples were our associate pastor and his wife. I called our friends and begged them to please incorporate the word ‘jive’ into their normal conversation that evening especially when chatting with our Scrabble male host. For instance, “We saw a ‘jive’ of a movie last week.” “I started ‘jiving’ when my favorite song came on my car radio.” Our pastor always blessed the food before we ate and I suggested he could say, “Bless this ‘jiving’ food.”
And they did.
I watched for any sign of the board-game-player’s face when ‘jive’ came out of the mouths of our dinner club participants without his knowledge of the ruse. Then the light bulb moment must have come on. He realized he had been had.
He looked over at me and said, “You win!”
My stubbornness and the rain have something in common.
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