I love playing trivia games. I think it was embedded
in my head at an early age from years upon years of
watching Jeopardy! every day. Now that a lot of bars
have trivia I can let the inner geek in me stretch his
chicken legs periodically. And nothing is more
amusing than telling the wobbling degenerate next to
me to either not ash on me, spill his beer, or obscure
my view of the lone TV showing the trivia game.
Because, yes, I am just as competitive at playing
trivia as anything else, and I am not just in the bar
to pound alcohol or look for floozies like he is.
I nestled into my cozy bar stool (holy s*it this thing
wobbles alot!), grabbed the trivia console, and
prepared for battle. I got into the game late, and
missed the first two questions. There was only one
other person playing, so it was time for me to play
catch up on this mano a mano battle. I started on
question 3, and got it correct immediately (which is
worth 1000 points). The points go down the longer it
takes you to answer. I then got the 4th question
right. And the 5th question. There is a break after
the 5th and 10th question (15 total). I stood at
3,000 points, just behind his 3500. The game started
back up and I brought the noise again. 6th question,
7th question, 8th question all perfect. I am now
ahead of him. I sneered and cast a quick glance his
way to find him shaking his head as I mounted 1000
after 1000 on his head. Pretty soon we are done with
question 10 and I am 8 for 8. That tied my previous
best.
Question 11 was easy, worked through 12 and 13, and
still had a perfect score. He still could catch me
with two to go though, provided I slipped up. I
remember distinctly now that Joan Jett was the answer
to the 14th question, but it took me a few extra
seconds to get it, and I only got 982. He got ~500,
and proceeded to get up and leave with one question to
go. I emasculated him to the point that he left! It
made the last 1000 even sweeter. I ended up scoring
12,982 of a possible 13,000 that I could have gotten.
I was so upset I missed the first two questions, as I
have only ever gotten into the 13’s once.
I almost felt bad at taking such glee in such a
trivial pursuit, but then he came back in to the bar
later and proceeded to throw himself at anything with
a hole and a heartbeat. It was actually pretty
amusing to watch, especially since the guy on the
other side of me was doing the same thing. Except he
was instead just buying drinks for all of the fat
chicks that kept fawning over him. Nothing like
buying the chunker a $10 shot of Patron, eh Player?
Well, at least the people watching gave me something
to do while I missed question after question in the
next game.
-Quizzically yours,
-Michael
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Wow, I forget how competitive bars are with their trivia and drunken whoring (can I say “whoring” here?)
I pretty much detest going out to bars for that very reason. Look buddy, I just want to get another beer, not get “picked up”. Out of my way and that has better not be your hand on my ass.
Not that there aren’t drunken antics at mi casa, however it’s a completely different story when the drinks are free.
Oh, and when you’re the only female.
The only female in a group full of men, drinking at your own place. Sounds like you went to RIT!