For all those gaming addicts out there, you would know what I am talking about…Though it was not AOE or NFS which he was playing, it was a game by the name DXBall..Many of us would have played this atleast once in our life…
Continue reading....
A Typical Morning Scenario:
Dad is known to be this extremely punctual kind..whether it comes to going to office or even otherwise…Since dad and mom go together, the standard scene everyday morning is that dad gets ready early and keeps mocking at mom for making it so late.. (Though men never understand that women a lot of unpaid work at home in the morning when all that a man has to do is sip coffee and read the morning paper… but my dad does a bit more... :) )
Nowadays…The situation is reverse… Dad gets ready as usual… sits in front of the comp and starts playing DXBall… Mom has nopressure to start early.. Mom asks dad to stop the game and shutdown the comp and start for office… And frequent statements like -
"Wait.. Will just finish this stage.."
"I just got a 'one-up' and an extra chance.."
"I will surely get another place in the high scoring list today… so wait... :D"
"See how well I am playing… cant stop now..."
are heard...
And finally somehow they start for office…
Evening after coming back from work, mom immediately sits in front of the comp and finishes her mail checking and a small chat session with me.. Coz she knows that once dads back home, after dinner theres no way he will even budge and forgo his computer rights! :D
After dinner dad again settles down to his high scoring spree atleast for 1-2 hours and constantly keep outperforming himself… Whenever he loses a chance while playing, blaming every other person around him for his bad performance :D
And his explanation about how he will surely beat the highest score in the "Score List" someday… as hez the second best at present.. And after repeated requests to come and sleep and the people around constantly distracting him to make him lose his other chances so that he will stop the game… :D
During some weekend when I am at home, I get a whole lot of gyan about all the intricacies of the game, thanks to the running commentary dad gives as he is playing...right from "What this shooting power will do…" "which brick will make increase the speed of the game" "Which brick will decrease the size of the supporting stick" :D
Finally after the painful effects in the shoulder and hands, dad decided that he should stop playing it… And lo! We uninstalled it from the system last weekend… I wonder what dad has been doing for timepass for the last 2-3 days… :) :)
