Good Loser

Is there such a thing?  Last night I lost at Pictionary.  Well, lost isn’t the right word.  My team stalled at the starting line while the other team raced around the track to uncontested success, did a victory lap, then nudged our stalled car off the track where it rolled into a pile of tires, burst into flame, then the tangled black wreckage was carted away and destroyed.

So yes, I am a sore loser.  With some of the drawings, I preferred to finish up after the time was up, just so I could at least have the feeling of satisfaction that my drawing was good.  While I would draw something in three-point perspective with full shading, the opposite team would draw a squiggly line and the other team member would shout out, “Double indemnity!  Yes!”  Then they would move forward on the board.  Yet again.

So I decided to help the other team by mumbling incorrect answers to try to get them to stray from the eventual solution.  Some of my helpful possible answers:

Removable warthog

Greco-Roman grappling

Crinoline

Quadruple indemnity

Stentorian

Trouser dingbat

Non-preventative maintenance

Dentrifice

Scolex

But you already know the outcome of this counter-intelligence propaganda campaign.  We lost.  But I am totally fine with that.

F$#k.

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