Vainly funny coincidence

[muckefuck]

At lunch, I happened to sit next to the elderly Scrabble game. It's usually over before I go, and everyone had the grim look of being in the second continuous hour of play. One lady played "da" (as in "dad (col.)") and the crotchety old man opposite her grumbled about challenging, but chose not to "so we can end this awful game". He wouldn't shut up about it, though, and did look it up. "For future reference," he announced, "'da' is not acceptable."

It's a good thing I'm not paranoiac. 'Specially since the next word the lady played was "wuss"