22
Oct

“story” of my life:

   Posted by: rads   in 100

Place: Family Room
Time and Day: Sunday morning 10 am

I am feverishly searching the net for the perfect recipe to try out the slow-cooker I bought a week ago. I’d stumbled upon this humorous, engaging thread on some hub on slow-cooking experiments gone bad, and was oblivious to the daughter and munchkin’s conversation behind me while they work at the Wii. Until

Daughter: Mom. Mom. MOM!

Me: eh, yea, what?

Daughter: Munchkin wants to play tennis with someone.

Me: Ok, play.

Daughter: Yeah, but she wants to win.

Me: o, that’s nice..[still paying minimal attention]

Daughter: So can you play then?

!?!!

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27 comments so far

 1 

Happy Dassera!

And you need to start practicing more on the Wii and dont throw the remote on the TV screen!

October 22nd, 2007 at 9:35 am
 2 

ROTFL!!! :–))
Immediate POA is to change that notion! :–)

October 22nd, 2007 at 10:22 am
 3 

Wii.

You folk have a Wii.

Forget winning or losing, you have a Wii!

October 22nd, 2007 at 10:56 am
 4 

Hard to figure out what is worse, right? The fact that you can’t beat a 3-year old or the utter lack of malice in her statement? Your utter ineptness or the fact that the whole world knows about it. :-)

BPSK

October 22nd, 2007 at 11:28 am
kutti
 5 

ha ha ha……. ayyo paavam!!

October 22nd, 2007 at 11:28 am
 6 

KC: :)

BPSK: I could say more, but I am gonna stop with “I am gonna let this one go” :)

Cyd: Yes, acquired it kinda late acc to the tweens at least.

SK: :)

Pilgrim: Ah well :)

All: None of you are parents right? Coz for a mom/dad to “lose” to their child is a mark of achievement. It’s a medal I’d wear proud. Isn’t that the whole point of progress we’d see in future generations anyway?

October 22nd, 2007 at 11:41 am
Madhu
 7 

Oh did’nt know u had a Wii! Cool – way to go munchkin – enjoy! Mom will easily lose for you!

October 22nd, 2007 at 12:10 pm
 8 

Growing up, Dad and I used to play chess very regularly (i.e. almost on a daily basis) until about high school.

I still remember the first time I beat my Dad at chess. It was a wow moment for both of us! :)

October 22nd, 2007 at 1:01 pm
 9 

And oh, he still says that he “let me win” and I still say, “Yeah right!”

October 22nd, 2007 at 1:01 pm
 10 

ROFL!

October 22nd, 2007 at 1:26 pm
some body
 11 

rads:

sign me up, not for tennis but for chess (and the result is for me, not your munchkin). but yes, i want to play munchkin.

from my online results (after midnight) last night, i think that the only way i can garner a win is by playing someone who was born yesterday (or as close to it as possible)! ;-)

- s.b.

October 22nd, 2007 at 1:36 pm
 12 

Hmmm…(scratching, this time existing, beard) do you want to do Real analysis with me. I could use some ‘losers’ to boost up my grade. You can bring K3 to. Dont get K1, K2, or hubby. They might whoop me.

October 22nd, 2007 at 2:26 pm
 13 

Rads, lol, believe don’t believe, but that was actually me trying to commiserate. That’s the story of *my* life. :)

Re. metlin’s comment, I remember one particular cricket game in the back yard with Dad. We played with cork balls. Shaking his head at the fast ball I had just bowled, he said ‘you must be the fastest bowler in your class!’ And here I was, who had just missed the cut to the second-string school team…

I stuck to bowling spin to him from that time on.

BPSK

October 22nd, 2007 at 3:07 pm
 14 

BPSK – argh!

OK: Anything to cheer you up! In return play chess/scrabble with me? :twisted:

sb: Sure thing. Munchkin is just amazing with her eye-hand coordination. She completely bowls us over. Exceptionally proud I am.
Sure, chess, anytime :)

Leo: ’nuff already :P Tell us how “good” you are!

metlin: I know the feeling, the son beat me a year ago in chess, and boy, we just sat and stared at the board for a few minutes before he started a whole dance around the table. Nice :)
Good stuff!

Madhu: hehe, yes :)

October 22nd, 2007 at 3:16 pm
 15 

ohh rads. I am quite good at tennis on wii. We have these wii days in office sometimes and I kick a**. But with kids its a diff case, I don’t mind losing to them or rather letting them win. ;)

October 22nd, 2007 at 3:47 pm
 16 

You really want to boost the little one’s self esteem? They should play with me…trust me when it comes to being bad at video games, nobodys as good as me! :-|

October 22nd, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Dushti
 17 

Rads,lol. I could give you company. I pretty much suck at any kind of game :D

October 22nd, 2007 at 8:11 pm
 18 

@Metlin: Oh, I always let my dad win at chess. However, I can’t help winning at Scrabble; it just comes naturally.

October 22nd, 2007 at 9:13 pm
 19 

My! Kids these days, ya know::giggle::

No, but seriously, you'd feel loads better to know that I? am the kind who runs for cover when a ball is thrown at me. Which makes you quite the champ. Have hope.

October 23rd, 2007 at 2:25 am
 20 

ah same old story of all great superbeings termed as “Mommy”

October 23rd, 2007 at 7:28 am
 21 

Giri: What? Super? Same story? :)

Charl: Looks like it :)

Cyd: Your modesty is endearing. We oughta play one day. Scrabble.

Dushti: hehe, am sure you’re good at something ;)

Prestid: Fine motor skills get clunky with age.

leo: hehe, yea, just don’t tell them that! :)

October 23rd, 2007 at 10:05 am
 22 

@Cydonian – I can totally believe that. So, do you play scrabble in English like the rest of us mortals or do you play it in just about any language that you fancy? :)

October 23rd, 2007 at 12:48 pm
 23 

Metlin: The last time I saw the words he collects, there aren’t that many letters on the board. Safe to say he has to play like us mortals ;)

October 23rd, 2007 at 3:15 pm
 24 

Lol ! :lol:

Glad you put that in writing… hilarious. I love kids sometimes ;-)

October 23rd, 2007 at 9:15 pm
 25 

LOL. We already know :P

October 24th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
 26 

:D Hilarious!!!! :D

October 25th, 2007 at 4:35 am
 27 

Nova: :D

Tdna: Yea yea, what do you know? :P

Zhu: “sometimes’ is the key word. :)

October 25th, 2007 at 8:24 am

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