Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The big staredown

We've just come from a Yahoo poker table, where a player threw a 17-minute hissyfit. He refused to play and apparently kept clicking the "thinking" button, because he felt another player was too slow. That other player refused to accommodate him, by leaving the table.

The table's host was away "feeding dogs," as he wrote on his return. And he couldn't boot Mr. Freeze, because a countdown clock wasn't running.

We sat waiting pre-flop with pocket 10's. So after plugging this blog via chat, we decided to make Mr. Freeze think a bit. Here's what we wrote:

"Love is kind and patient, never jealous, boastful, proud or rude. Love isn't selfish or quick tempered. It doesn't keep a record of wrongs that others do."

"And where did you get that fragging trash?" Mr. Freeze replied.

"I Corinthians 13, of the Bible," we answered. (verses 4-5, CEV)

"Oh." The man whom some might consider rude and selfish paused for a moment.

"Can I be saved?"

"Yes," we answered.

He didn't ask how. And a few minutes later, when the object of his freeze left, he quit the table as well.

Our pocket 10's won a pretend nine-dollar pot, but perhaps we accomplished much more. And oh yes, you can be saved as well. We'll be glad to tell you how; simply e-mail us for information.

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