Blog #7

 Rock-paper-scissors is the best way to settle things. Can’t decide what flavor of ice cream to have, or when to do your homework (obviously right afterschool), then you settle it with a quick game of rock-paper-scissors, this fast game can easily help you with the little things. All my life I have always turned to rock-paper-scissors for a quick answer. One thing about the game is when you lose you are forced to deal with the result. Just last week my friend and I were quarreling over what colour to do our nails. Yes this may be a very small issue, but it meant something to us. I said French tips with gold flowers, and she disagreed with full red and dotted flowers. Not agreeing on how to do our nails was not going to be an option since we both needed to have matching nails. Then she said it, “rock-paper-scissors?!” agreeing I shook out my hands and steadied myself. Two out of three, sounds simple but it could mean sudden death in a few moments. Now it has begun, I rack my brain of the possibilities of me playing rock, then her suffocating my helpless rock with her air-tight paper. It would be a stretch but I risk it. Rock. I played it, and looking at her hand she held a shaky pair of scissors. I emulsified her. Round two, I went over the thought of playing another rock, but will she know my strategy by now? Flustered and out of time my hand flattens into paper. Her scissors are back and cut me deep. Tired and worried with sudden death on the table I ask her for any final words. “Say good bye to French tips Victoria”. I’m not giving up, not yet. Without thinking my fist turns to stone, and once again I am trapped by the evil paper. My life is ruined, but we laugh about my failure at rock-paper-scissors. She may have won that game, but I see great glory in my future.