Well I was on there looking at stuff and in random boredom inspired browsing read an ad asking for people to join a group of Scrabble players. Benign right? Should be a bunch of totally normal, smart people right?
If you've ever watched the movie Word Wars, then you should have known better and warned me. As I'd watched the movie and obviously forgotten.
I went for my first time tonight and it was at an odd cafe/medical marijuana collective. All the food on the menu was named after old Communist theorists. Two old seemingly gay dudes. An extremely thin older woman, genius smart about Scrabble. Two college age Asian sisters who fit the definition of 'otaku'. And me.
Maybe "freakshow" is a little bit of hyperbole, but yeah......
Or I could just be bitter in that they all trounced me. I should have known that would happen when each and every person asked me what word games I played online, on my ereader, on my phone and so. Some serious word gaming folks here!
But you know what? I'll go back. 'Cause maybe I'm just a little bit of a freakshow myself.
Maybe you should try meetup.com? They have a group for everyone.
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