Victory will be mine, oh yes, it will!

Before I became addicted to World of Warcraft (I'll admit it, I'm hooked) Liz and I would spend many an evening dueling each other with MSN Messenger's Solitaire Showdown. Last night WoW was being very laggy, several servers & realms were down, so people from those realms needing their fix were migrating to other servers and jamming those up as well. After waiting several minutes to log in to WoW (small complaint, I heard some people waited hours) only to get lagged out then forced to wait to log back in again, I gave up and Liz and I once more had a Solitaire Showdown.

Liz won 5 of the first 6 games but never went out. We usually play several games with the winner being the first person to reach 500, regardless of actual number of games won. So Liz had a good run at the start but she never went out, which nets you big points, usually 80 to 100 per win. After I went out once, then won several more games, we were neck and neck going into the final turn. The last hand I was "this close" to going out. I had just 1 card left to play and I'd be out, but I was blocked with no moves left. I was forced to sit and watch helplessly while Liz went through her cards, getting closer and closer to going out herself. I looked at the scoreboard and while we were both over 500, Liz had about 20 points on me.

"Oh well, tied game," I said, knowing that if Liz gave up now she'd still actually be the grand winner.

Liz would have no part of it and she continued to play several more cards, getting even closer to going out. Then it happened, she made a play allowing me to move one of my cards, then another, and I was out.

"Doesn't matter," said Liz, "I still win."

"Oh really," said I, "that's not what the scoreboard says."

Liz looked at the scoreboard and saw it was true. By going out I'd got the bonus points which put my score above hers. Needless to say that while Liz was happy she'd got her game of Solitaire Showdown, she was not happy I'd stolen the win at the last possible moment.

Victory is sweet, but there's nothing better than coming from behind (get your minds out of the gutters >:) to steal the win.