SPELING BEEH???

being the bad conversationalist that i am (i suck in oral communication yeah), people often ask me to spell things i mumble or pronounce differently ( thanks to my stupid accent), which i seldom or probably never do. i never spell. i just say nevermind or forget it...

it happened again yesterday while i was talking with dave on the phone. of course i didn't spell.

i had a pretty bad spelling bee career you know..

in grade school i joined the spelling bee. growing up with too much reading, i knew all the long, complex words most people my age in my hometown probably haven't even heard of. i went to the district level contest and won. on to the division level. at first i was so nervous. but then after an hour or so walking around, mingling with the competition while waiting for the contest to start, i smirked and told myself, "hah! this is what they're throwing against me?

i was a real jackass.

so after all the 7-12 letter words, the quizmaster gave me my final word. AISLE, she said. "what!" i thought. "this is ridiculous! what an insult!" in my cockiness i didn't bother to listen to the meaning and how they used it in a sentence. "ISLE, i said. I-S-L-E," i was wrong, of course.

and that was the end of my brilliant career in the spelling bee.