I'm rather fond of the card game, Euchre. As you need 4 people to play it, however, I often find myself resorting to www.pogo.com or similar sites to sate my card-playing needs. Today, after finishing up an assignment for my World Literature course, I decided to take a nice Euchre break. On the "table" there is a little chat on the side which allows the players to talk to one another. Normally it is regular card chat with encouragement for your partner, but on some occaisions an actual conversation will break forth. This happened today, when my partner, "MtDewKid1955" started talking with one of the opponents, "Sheilla11061955". First, MtDewKid says he needs to talk with Sheilla after the game -- this gave me the indication that they already know each other. Sheilla says he can just talk now, and MtDewKid says that he'll know on 2-15. Sheilla then asks "Know what?" giving me the impression that MtDewKid was much more into their correspondance than Sheilla was. MtDewKid replies "about the surgery" and Sheilla says "Is that all you had to tell me?" MtDewKid then says he has a few more questions, and Sheilla begins to chat with me and her own partner, who are just trying to play the game. A little bit later, MtDewKid asks if Sheilla feels that he is stalking her, to which she replies "Yes". I'm a little weirded out at this point and wondering how old these people are -- they were acting like children however the '1955' in both of their names threw me off. Awesomely enough, Pogo provides players with profiles, and upon closer examination, I discovered that MtDewKid is 51 while Sheilla is 50. Both were from Michigan, but I have no idea if they know each other in real life or just through Pogo. Sheilla did mention that MtDewKid was having his sister call her and place "guilt trips" on her, and MtDewKid also asked if Sheilla was in a relationship with a pogo player who entered later to watch the game.
I'm still just shocked that I witnessed 50-year olds have this teenage-like discussion online.
On the plus side, MtDewKid and I won.
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I love the internet.
I'm matt and I believe that our classes are working together. So, hi.
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