Jake Can Turn ANYTHING Into a Competiton
Posted By startswithanx on July 13, 2010
I think I’ve mentioned before that Jake loves him some Jeopardy. Yes, as in Alex Trebec and the three people who make you realize what the other college kids were doing while you improved your beer bong speed.
Well, we recently decided to make the 30-minute trivia show a little more interesting. We’ve gone from spectators to contestants — both in our heads and in our living room. At first we were just keeping our personal scores with the fingers on our hands, but after a call even more controversial than Jim Joyce’s, we’ve now incorporated pads of paper and pens.
It happened on day three of competing. First, you should know that this isn’t a friendly little competition. In fact, Jake wouldn’t even let me write this here blog until he tied the series, 2-2. Where my fiancé is concerned, competitions of any kind are about as friendly as the city of Cleveland was with #23 Cavs jerseys last Thursday. And, he can turn ANYTHING into a competition. Getting the mail, brushing your teeth, driving to work, sweeping the floor — all of it has a stop watch and a finish line in Jake’s mind.
But, back to day three of the competition. We were neck and neck for about five seconds until Jake took a good lead and hung onto it. In case I should forget, he reminded me between every commercial with an “X is going to lose” song. God forbid the song wasn’t enough to unnerve me, he added a dance, too.
Well, guess who whooped ass during Double Jeopardy to make it a one-point game? Yes indeedy, it was the namesake of my singer-songwriter-dancer fiance’s hit song!
Needless to say, the next commercial break went a little differently. No songs, no dances, just challenges. He was challenging my score. There’s no way I could be one point behind him when he was so far ahead. How did he know my score was valid? And on and on and on.
It only got worse after I won Final Jeopardy. To the point it was starting to get to me. To the point I had to redeem my good name. To the point I was willing to take great lengths.
Folks, prepare to look at Jake and I a little differently because, um, well … we did a recount. We took advantage of the DVR, rewound the entire episode and went through every answer one-by-one until the truth was revealed.
Turned out Jake was right: I wasn’t completely accurate with my score. This girl had one more point than she originally gave herself credit for. Put that in your song and do a dance to it!
He says I’m just as competitive for going through with his suggestion to rewind, but that’s easy for him to say. He wasn’t being called a cheater. Seriously, does this not take the cake for competitiveness?
Ha! I love this. Nothing wrong with a little healthy competition to keep the heat alive! Although Arlene had already told me we should do a game night soon and I am suddenly having second thoughts…..
GAME NIGHT ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!! I know where Jake is coming from. There was that time when the Brazilian and I were playing checkers and he kept “Kinging” over me that I did a Theresa from the Real Housewives of New Jersey and flipped the board game. The Brazilian no longer wants to play checkers or Connect 4. At least I didn’t call him a lying filthy whore.
UMMMM… I am just impressed with the fact that you play frickin Jeopardy! I like it when it is High School week myself and other than that I turn the channel. I am a Wheel Of Fortune gal myself. Kick his butt X!! ; )
Konchers, I won’t lie. It gets pretty intense, between Jake and Asian Spice.
Asian Spice, who called who a lying filthy whore?! Damn, that’s serious business. … Oh, and when I was writing this, I seriously thought to myself, if anyone will be able to relate to Jake’s antics, it’s Asian Spice. LOL.
Samantha, HERE’S THE BEST PART (and I probably intentionally left it out, but feel like I have to confess now), it was KIDS’ EDITION. Not even high school, we’re talking 12 year olds! Ay, ay, ay. Not our proudest moment.
The competition has been fun. Just for the record, the series is now Jake: 3, X: 2. The all important game 5 went down to final jeopardy with X leading by one point. Somehow, luckily, I managed to get the question right. I’ll admit it, X has been tough competition. The girl has some brains on her.
We used to watch Jeopardy every night. My husband is crazy smart, but knows nothing about pop culture, but I did at the time, so between the two of us we usually knew the answers. No competition though.
Then they changed the rule limiting how many times someone could win and that annoying Jennings guy was on EVERY DAY for MONTHS, and I never watched again. I hate you, Jennings guy. You and your $5 million in Jeopardy money.
Sounds like a good clean fun. Other than bragging rights….what does the winner get out of all this?
That is hilarious. And PURE AWESOME that you were ahead of where you had though. Good job!
Sounds like someone else in the family has taken over the title of Game Nazi.
Also, I think Asian Spice meant to say “At least I didnn’t call him a prostitution whore” quoting Theresa on the table flipping episode of RHONJ.
This post made me frickin’ ecstatic – my husband is psychotically competitive and I used to make fun of him until I realized I always threw down to compete at [fill in the blank of stupidity here]. We’ve bet hundreds of dollars on where a rarely used freeway exit went (I won), what signs were posted in a parking lot we used (he won), who sang “Paint it, black” (I beat both him and his best friend to tune of $100 – they both swore the doors sang it, seriously, wtf?). Our victories have three stages – the initial gloating, the gloating when we spend the money, and the reintroduction of the win whenever the other doubts themselves. I shudder at what our offspring will be like….or whether we’ll ever let them win anything.
hmmmm….i thought jake didn’t like to play games. or does he just say that so he won’t blow up on anyone?
My wife is a sore loser, so I know better than to gloat. Or really ever challenge her in something that she stands a good chance of losing.
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