Competetion

I was raised in a house that encouraged competition winning took being competitive. Even when I lose I say, "good game"and acknowledge the fact my competitors played a better game. Now I like to win, it's just in me and how I was raised. I only know one person who is okay with losing and that baffles me how she can be okay with it.
The story of this post is this, my girlfriend Shaina and I got into playing a board game called Sequence while she was in town. The point of the game is to take cards in your hand put markers on the board of your card to create five in a row. Sequence is a semi competitive game, most the time it's the luck of the draw and how you strategize with what you got, but there is a competitiveness in it. The game sequence is a great game to play in teams where your team tries to get two sequences of five before the other team. A major rule for this game is no table talk so you and your partner need to be on the same wavelength to win. Shaina is in town from Fort Worth and her time in Austin is limited, Shaina and I hung out with her friends Ashley and Marcus. The last two nights we played sequence with teams Shaina and I were pretty good against them the first night, but lost two out of three games.
Last night Shaina and I played them in Sequence again and I got competitive. Shaina didn't like that and thought I took a game too seriously, to me I didn't; I just like winning. I didn't say mean things like,"Suck it" but I talked trash like,"Watch and learn," nothing I thought was overly aggressive. Shaina and I ended up winning Sequence last night and I was psyched cause we redeemed ourselves and ended a great day with a win. On our way back to the car I said,"I think I was the most competitive player in that game." Shaina got frustrated with me to explain how it's a board game and the time spent playing the game with friends is the fun part, not winning cause winning Sequence doesn't get you anything. She wasn't trying to change my philosophy on winning but she wanted me to see the other perspective her friends had to bear of her and I playing against them.
My whole point is this, being competitive about any game or competition shouldn't be looked down upon if the other people aren't competitive. I want to win there's nothing wrong with that!

TGIF on Thursday

Usually I wouldn't post two blogs in the same day, but man do I got a story for you.

It's July 10th, 2014 at 2:30pm and I arrive at TGIF. My friend Josh put on his facebook there's endless appetizers going on for 10 bucks so I get a hold of my buddy Ronnie. The story to TGIF is one of its own. I tell Ronnie there's one downtown so we drive to the hotel that it's a part of. I chant "TGIF TGIF" as we pull up. I walk towards the hotel and Ronnie takes a minute and I yell,"c'mon grandpa." We get inside the hotel and turns out they renovated it so there is no TGIF inside the hotel. I'm bummed and tell Ronnie check google maps. On google maps it says there is one far down south and I was worried that we wouldn't go, but Ronnie said c'mon lets go.
Ronnie and I start driving on the freeway to TGIF and the freeway is backed up cause Obama decided to be in Austin the next couple days. As we're driving I'm talking going over what I've learned last couple days an app called uber and lift, a conversation a homeless guy and I had, nothing important just talking pieces for me. Finally we arrive to TGIF and again I am excited.
I walk in sit at the bar and ask about the 10 dollar all you can eat appetizers and the bar lady says yes. I'm instantly ready to have fun. I'm hungry, looking forward to this all you can eat and drinks too. I say what's your name, she says I'm Andrea and I say well we're your company for now I'm Jacob he's Ronnie she says pleasure to meet you and we order drinks. Now I'm parched so I finish my long island ice tea fast before our food arrives. I order another light on the ice. Ronnie and I start talking about porn, I ask where you watch yours, and making home videos, my experience with trying to make a home video all at level volume. Ronnie tells me to shut my mouth, but I insist to keep talking cause I have a point at what I'm trying to say. The food comes and I'm Mr. Fun I got my belly full, I'm crackin' jokes, thinking of new jokes, all at the typical noise level for my voice. I tell a black joke I thought of, it goes like this: "So I was crackin' jokes with a black person and the black person goes I do that too, and I say what, Jokes? he says nah, crack." Ronnie says don't say jokes like that anymore, I look over my shoulder and black people walk in. I say I'm always bad with first impressions cause I'm going to say what I'm going to say and if you don't like well the my first impression will be bad. I try my new pickup line on the bar lady. I'll tell you why, cause I told Ronnie and he said that's really funny, and I was like watch you got to watch it in action. So I try it out and the bar lady doesn't like it, but acknowledges it's a good line.
I finish my second long island tea order another one light on the ice and she say," Honey you're good, I can get you a water or a desert." In shock, I order a water. I go over in my head like forreal, you're going to cut me off, I'm just having fun on my second drink. Ronnie speaks up and goes I can't believe you got cut off and I go I know! It's my second drink. It took her a long time to get my water and when she did I said wow I feel like it's in a sippy cup. I didn't feel embarrassed more offended than anything. It killed my mood, I closed out my check and bounced out of that bitch.
In the car with Ronnie we were both in shock at what happened, I say yeah I understand from her perspective that I should be cut off for what I said, but I was just talking. Ronnie on the other side was like that was horseshit, and he didn't even get cut off. Pulling into the neighborhood not only did I vow that TGI Fridays I will longer go, but I learned that shutting your mouth has serious implications. 

The Pickup Line

So I was at work talking to Alicia as we were closing down the bingo hall for the night and I thought of a pickup line. I think it was inspired mostly by how women view me, so I tell my buddy Cole my pickup line he cracks up and says thats great.I've now established confidence in my pickup line I thought of. Cole and I after work go get a beer across the street, there's this comedy show called buzzkill being put on and there is tons of women. Now me I'm not worried about it, I got a beautiful girl I'm talking to and I'm not trying to ruin that. I see all these other cute girls around and think it'd be a good opportunity for Cole; I could be a wing man and that could close up yesterdays night, but instead calls his buddy Raul to grab a beer with us. We're all shooting the shit at the table Cole then leaves for the restroom and Raul is talking to me about Mexico. I'm interested in hearing how other people lived in other parts of the world but I see a cute blond girl sitting by herself, so once my buddy Cole got back to sit down and drink his beer I say,"I'm going to try my pickup line." Here's how it went down:
(walking over to the girl, her back is turned, I have my who body face hers then I talk)
"I hear you like bad boys"
"No"
"You wanna come over to my place and watch cops?"
"No"
"You didn't like that pickup line?"
"No"
"It's funny, do you know why it's funny?"
"Yes"
"Oh okay, well I thought of it at work I wanted to try it, hi I'm Jacob"
"Hi I'm Cynthia, yeah I didn't like it"
"Oh okay so where you from Cynthia?"
"Spain"
"Cool"
Ect. we talked for not much longer I was there to get a reaction on my pickup line. I sat down told my buddies pickup line again and we laughed. I said you can't win them all, then I thought, even if she didn't like it it started a conversation with her and that's half the battle. So maybe it is a good secret pickup line.