Friends

One of the benefits of having a ridiculously expensive phone that really acts like a computer is the ability to add various applications and other useful tools right at your fingertips. This includes things such as weather radars; weights and measures conversions; streaming music; and super useful time-wasting games. Recently, I began playing a word based game where you compete against one other person. This particular game recently gained some prominence when one Mr. Alec Baldwin was removed from an airplane when he refused to quit playing.

While I’m certainly not the smartest person in the land, I do like to think I have some degree of intelligence. What I’ve been finding though, is the people I’m playing against are infinitely smarter than I am as I’ve been getting housed in every single game. A typical game for me starts with a few big words that gain me a sizable amount of points and usually an early lead. Of course, as the game progresses, I end up running out of ideas and end up using words like “to” or “add” or some other minimal word that gains me very few points. At the same time, my opponent will end up playing some obscure or scientific word that I didn’t know existed. The end result of this exercise is a swift come-from-behind victory for my opponent and me with a slate full of vowels.

I figure I have a few options to correct this situation. First, I could read the dictionary to establish a greater vocabulary, but this might take a significant amount of time. Second, I could stop playing this game, but then I would need to find another activity to waste time. I think my best option however, is to find dumber friends.