Scrabble Irony:
Saturday was Alexandra’s 11th Birthday. She and her friends partied throughout the day, dancing, singing, playing games etc. Amonst other items, one of the gifts I gave her was the “Scrabble” board game (Romanian version).
After all the kids had gone home, and between bottles of wine, the “adults” — well three of them anyways — decided they would play some Scrabble, I was roped in as a fourth. Now sure I speak some Romanian, but I mean come on… Scrabble?! I didn’t have a chance. At least that’s what I thought, especially when I got saddled with the “X”, a letter which sees very little use in the Romanian language, and when hand after hand my collection of pieces remained ‘vowel-less’. Funny thing is, I actually crushed the other three… winning by a respectable 51 points! Go figure.
