Oh, the perils of anonymous scrabbling

I've gone on record (on SM, on Friendster, away messages and on Facebook) as being a huh-yoooge Scrabulous fan-- it's addictive and unlike snickers, it satisfies.  While I'm tickled that so many of my friends play, I still can't get enough; yes, I have become insatiable.  There is only one option for me...

One-night Scrabbles.

I resisted the idea, initially.  It seemed so tawdry and dirty.  I thought, "you just click..."join game"...and *play* with a total stranger?  Eeek!"  As stupid as it now reads, it sounded like walking in to a swingers club and that's about the level of fear and aversion I felt towards it.  But then, I grew desperate.

And I clicked.  And I played.  And it wasn't so bad!  I decided that I had been an idiot for feeling the way I had.

Then the game ended, and I went back, cautiously and hopefully, for more.  That's when I saw a "come-on" which confirmed all of my earlier apprehensiveness:

"Gay men only!  If you are a woman, I will DELETE you!" 

Um, okay.  What this told me was that there were probably far more hetero people doing similar.  I hit refresh and lo, there was confirmation. 

"Girls only, if you're not hot, too bad." 

Even better:

"I want girls to talk nasty with me, no chat, no game". 

Eew, eew, eew.

I learned to shrug it off and though I noticed that I tended to only choose other females to play with, I've become far more nonchalant about these pick-up games.  Until today.  Which is when I saw something which I had to record in my diary, because I've meant to write about my weird scrabulous hang-up for a while now, I haven't got around to it, there's no time like the present AND this is so...well, you'll see.

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Matthew is requesting a Regular game using the English TWL dictionary. Speed: Fast Rating: 1326

Note: ***PLEASE READ THIS*** ***PLEASE READ THIS*** I want to play with girls who are prepared to show me their tits. Tell me your bra size on Scrabulous chat when we start the game. If I win you send me pic of tits.....if you win you can name your prize...

Um, yeah.  Where to begin?  Let's just stick with my standard, "Eww, eww, EWWW."

Comments

[1st time commenter]

can they penalize you for not cooperating (like bad feedback on ebay)?

if not, i would agree to the grounds, block the chat, and then send him a picture of a monkey.

i'm also glad you posted his picture, because it's so pathetic that it's almost funny (almost, but not quite).

[Zen]

Wow, I've been lucky with my one night Scrabbles, all have been normal, no small talk whatsover and only interested in playing the game (Scrabulous that is). You are a true freak magnet, it's an art :)

[Azhagan]

OMFG. I thought this was prevalent with like myspace and $hit, not FB.

Now you know why I am not so "social" online.

[A N N A]

Hey, I didn't accept his "request"! I just copied it and blogged it, for all to enjoy. ;)

All the people I actually play with anonymously have been lovely to the point of paranoia (when asking for a rematch by starting a new round, stating up front they understand if I delete the game instead, etc).

But yeah, Zen, my frien'. I'm an artist, all right. ;)

[pied piper]

Wow.

[rarr]

FYI, you can also play scrabulous directly at www.scrabulous.com . Surprisingly, I don't think any of this inappropriate sexual stuff goes on there. I've had 300 Scrabble one-night stands there, and I've seldom seen sketchiness. Yay scrabulous! And yay for guys who aren't degenerates!