Immediate sidenote: I laugh every time at “May the best friend win.” What is that? It’s like a game we used to play in Latin class in high school that we (and our teacher) called “Who’s the better person?” That didn’t have anything to do with the rules or the concept, that was just the title…
I play Words With Friends with some actual friends, but mostly strangers–and I enjoy that, because it means I have more games going. Occasionally people message about the game, which is great, or to say “good morning” which is fine, but then you get things like this:
No…double word scores to me.
People know there is this thing called Tinder, right?
I thought my age would discourage this (very young-looking) person…
…but then he asked if I was a married lady. I tried to put a doorstop to the line of questioning by leaving it vague…
And then I resigned.
After this, I figured out how to change my Words With Friends profile picture to a gender neutral sunset.
This guy and I had played several games and the only non-scrabble topic he seemed to want to talk about was the Yankees…
Oh. There it is.
I just want to fucking play scrabble.
