Tale of a First-Time Home Buyer: Rock, Paper, Scissors

We sneaked back into the house last weekend. It had just been painted and the fumes were overwhelming… but we stuck it out for as long as we could. The topic of the day was, “who gets which side of the walk-in closet in the master bedroom?” We both wanted the right side…it’s a bigger and just seems…well… better. Naturally, we agreed that a best-of-three series of RPS (rock-paper-scissors for all the non-nerds) would settle the disagreement once and for all.

Everyone knows to expect rock on the first play, so playing paper is the natural counter-play. But I, being a self-proclaimed genius, took it one step further and played the highly strategic counter-counter-play, and confidently slammed my scissors into the playing circle. She played rock. ARGH! I made the rookie mistake of classic over-thinking! No problem, she may have won the battle, but I will win the war.

I adjusted my strategy on the fly and immediately threw down a ferocious rock on the next play. She calmly played – gasp! – Paper! Foiled again! “That’s two out of three,” she said with that little, usually cute, but currently annoying sly smile of hers. “I must have been affected by the fumes,” is all I could muster.

And so goes the story of how I lost the good side of the walk-in closet. I’m sure she’ll gloat for years to come. She will enjoy the better side of the closet more than me anyway. Well, I let her win. Yeah. That’s the story I’ll go with.