AND, checkmate!
Kasia February 16th, 2008
So I’m in Chatham at Chez Mere de Canuque this weekend. Last night when we went to bed I was in a really lousy mood. It was probably a combination of watching the final episode of M*A*S*H (The Canuck is a huge fan) for the first time and crying at several points, then getting an e-mail that I overreacted to. Anyway, so we’re getting ready to go to sleep and I’m trying not to be snarly and unpleasant, but am still being contrary, which is pretty much as far as I can get towards the pleasant end of the spectrum when I’m in that kind of mood. At that point, I usually have to sleep it off.
The Canuck, of course, is being very sweet and trying to be helpful. He’s offering to rub my neck, which is a little out of sorts - I’m refusing. He’s offering to go over and put the computer to sleep so the light will stop irritating me - I’m refusing to let him.
Finally he looks at me and says, and I’m not kidding, “OK, but the next contrary statement you make, I’m going to go put the computer to sleep AND rub your neck. Sound good?”
What could I say? If I said no, that would be a contrary statement, and he’d go ahead and do it.
I hate how easily he can outsmart me! I especially hate when I end up laughing off my lousy mood as a result of his having outsmarted me! GRRRR!
I always lose at chess, too. Like Inigo Montoya, I have no gift for strategy. I can play well for a while, but I’m never able to checkmate my opponent. I remember one time I was playing chess with my then-best friend; I had her down to two pieces, but for the life of me I couldn’t checkmate her. The game went on for HOURS. Finally she had to come up with my strategy to checkmate her, because we both wanted the game to end but didn’t want to just quit.
