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I made the mistake of assuming that playing scrabble was a pleasant way to pass an evening until I played against two seriously competitive strategic players. I was happy just getting the words on the board without comprehending quite what criminal act I'd committed gifting points to the player who was following with the other player (my ex) practically blowing a gasket as games slipped away from him due to my ineptitude. I also wasn't reading the room too fast as I'd possibly had a vodka or two so was oblivious to the tension. I was also bankrupted possibly within a couple of laps of the board by said ex at Monopoly - I'd never seen anyone so deadly clinical - I haven't played it, or scrabble, since. A seriously bad loser though as when I beat him at Trivial Pursuit he accused me of memorising all the answers on the cards - and he was serious.
Trying to remember as there have been books that have made me laugh out loud but I don't think any of them are recent reads. Tom Sharpe - I read those a long time ago. The Flashman series of course and that was a long time ago as well. Maybe, from memory, the most recent was The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared.
I have been to Ashton Gate a couple of times to watch us play - first time in the away end but the second time in the 2024 season my daughter, who lives in Bristol, got tickets in the Bristol family stand, which was up close and personal. That was just after the debacle between Wolves and West Brom (I think) fans who'd got mingled into the same stand so I was on best behaviour not to cheer if we scored just in case we got mobbed. We thought Bristol had scored at the early stages after we faffed around with the ball in front of goal and gave it away. A lot of the first half action was over the other side of the ground and mostly in Bristol's favour but it was Chair who got the only goal. He walked purposefully towards the Bristol fans at one stage but then just threw a bit of paper or something in our direction. The main abiding memory of that game was one angry supporter behind us who thought every decision in our favour was wrong and every decision in Bristol's favour wasn't enough and kept shouting 'SWITCH' really loudly amongst a mostly peaceful stand.
Maybe it is a northern thing as my mum was from the north and she used to hate the shoes on the table etc so we used to do it deliberately but now I find these things do stick with you so that one, the open umbrella indoors, the salt over the shoulder, walking under ladders, bad luck for the one magpie etc. The QPR ones include if I check in on how it's going and the other side score I try not to look again, if I can stand the pressure of not knowing, just in case I jinxed it. Same with the away Swansea match I went to, decided I'd better not go to another one last season just in case.
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