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Oh, Domino!
I don't know how you feel about the clubbing of baby seals, but that's cold. Weeks later, after we, the Good Guys, had won several in a row, the Bad Guys won one and sent the following in reference to my teammate and me:
"I am not sure we can get these two (see attached) back to a domino table. We left them shell shocked."
The attached? Two scared baby primates.
That prompted me to respond. Finally.
"They remind me of the two hookers in Paris you told me about. Oh,wait!"
(Brilliant, eh?)
The Bad Guys' response was, um, actually pretty clever.
"Alex,
You're somewhat right in that the two Parisian working girls looked like this the next morning. The difference here is that you and your teammate looked like this late last night (so I hate to see what you look like now). Take that…!"
But soon after, the Bad Guys' emails to us took on a sad, even desperate tone.
"I urge you not to beat up on Bad Guy 2 too much today because he is exhibiting the classic signs of Defeat by Inferior Enemy disorder (rare condition better known by the initials 'DIE'). People suffering from this disorder should be treated with care until fully recovered, which tends to occur immediately after an episode of 'Beating Inferior Team & Exterminating Meaningless Enemy' (better known as 'BITE ME').
Sincerely,
Bad Guy 1"
Of course, if that kind of creativity and energy were to be put into, oh, say, PLAYING DOMINOES, such cries for help might become unnecessary.
The reality here is that all we're really doing in Southern California is upholding a Cuban tradition or two. We get together every week. We smoke cigars. We drink rum. We eat picadillo, though in this case it is made from turkey. (Gives me the heebie-jeebies!) Most of all, this weekly gathering gives us the opportunity to relax and enjoy one another's company and, how shall I put it, talk caca. Especially this week.
As we played on the terrace of the Four Seasons near to all of our homes, I was near the end of the La Aurora. The Bad Guys were beating the Good Guys three games to two and were up 92 to 18 in game six, just eight points from triumph. In short, momentum shifted suddenly. The Good Guys came back to take the game without giving up another point. Then, remarkably -- nay, stunningly -- the Good Guys won the seventh game in a shutout: 100 to zero. Basically, in about seven hands, the Good Guys scored more than 182 points to snatch victory from the jaws of the would-be clubbers of baby seals.
Order had been fully restored. Reversion to the mean had occurred. The reaction of the Bad Guys? They sent only a photo:
Alejandro Benes lives in Southern California and, apparently, has too much time on his hands.
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