Friendly Competition

This will be my first and last blog ever--so enjoy you one faithful reader of this blog.

Sometimes Cath-bot and I engage in friendly competition, or so I think. She claims that I am as competitive as her, but this I adamantly refute. For this I have many examples, but I am choosing to share only one. The other night we played the childrens' (emphasis on children) game (emphasis on game) "Life" by Milton Bradley for ages 9+ (Don't ask why we were playing "Life"). At the start of the game, Cathy chose to be the Banker. The Banker controls the money each person gets and gives loans. I won the spin, as usual, and chose to go to college which required a loan from the Banker. Therefore, the Banker (Cath-bot) gave me the loan documents and my money to go to college. Not checking the accuracy of the amounts, as it is a childrens' game for ages 9+, I continued playing. After a few turns, I decided to repay the loan. However, the Banker had given me the wrong amount of loan paper, so that I owed less. Jokingly, I refused to pay more than the documents stated. Needless to say, this did not sit well with the Banker. After a few more refusals to pay more than was stated, the Banker threw down the bag that contained the miniature plastic life parents and children and quit, citing cheating. The Banker's bright red face was difficult to handle, but after what seemed like hours, I was able to convince the Banker to continue playing the game by paying more than I owed, which happened to be only $25,000 in fake "Life" money. In the end, this amount proved immaterial as I easily won by over $2 million continuing my undefeated streak against Cath-bot in the game of "Life" by Milton Bradley ages 9+.