You Can Tell A Lot About A Person By The Electronic Handheld Games in Her Car

Hubby is a smart guy. He constantly amazes me with the trivia he keeps in his head. And he can do math in there as fast as a calculator. Just watch us sometime in the grocery store. He's not the person you want to play against in Trivial Pursuit plus he's competitive so you really don't.

What's more, he has always assumed that he is fairly average. If other people didn't do as well as he did in school, he assumed it was because they didn't try. It isn't until recently that I have had to make him understand that wasn't the case. I have to remind him sometimes, after pulling him aside, that Chick and Dude aren't necessarily lazy. Things just don't click for other people like they do for him. He can't understand why they don't remember details from history that they studied three years ago for one class day.. because he does.

On the other hand, that's not my forte. I am more of a logic person. As in puzzles and such. I used to love in particular those standardized tests that always had the lego blocks and you had to choose which piece would fit. I can actually visualize the individual piece in my head spinning around until it's right. Tetris. Now that's my game. I remember playing when it first came out. My brother and his friend hated giving me the controller because they knew it would be forever until they got it back. To this day, I love playing it. In fact, I have the electronic hand held game in my car. When I'm parked at the school, waiting for the kids to come out, you can find me sitting there playing it.

I am not much on strategy though. Games like Risk and Chess are not my thing. Although I have been thinking about it and possibly that's more because of the pressure involved. I don't do well with stress in a game. I think they are for relaxing. Games like Risk make my stomach hurt.

But I suppose if planning out your moves is strategy, then perhaps I am better at it than I think.
The other electronic hand held game I keep in the car is Freecell. It is a solitaire kind of card game (which I also used to love playing -- my dad even gave me a book on playing solitaire once). I often catch myself making a list of moves in my head and following it. Hubby thinks I win pretty much every time I play.

I'm a little more modest in my assessment but I don't think he understands how I beat it so often any more than I understand how he can remember trivia about the 40's when he wasn't even alive. It's probably also why, at least in part, I get how things work more so than he does. The Asvab (kind of the SAT for the military) claimed I would make a good mechanic. It was one of my top two in fact. And when we have a car problem or make a home improvement, that's when Hubby is often wanting my help the most. Sometimes he just can't make it fit together in his head when I can.

That's actually why I think we make a good team. We don't think alike. A lot of our opinions and views are alike but we don't reason in the same way. But because of that, we can see different sides of an issue or problem. He can explain things to me and I can explain things to him. We can make a decision based on our unified view of the problem. And we stick together -- even when it was the wrong choice. That's what makes a couple into a team.

I see that lacking in a lot of couples today and it scares me a little. If a couple isn't a team, supporting each other and pumping each other up, well, then it's just two people who happen to be together. And that doesn't last very long. Working together, recognizing each others strengths and weaknesses, and relying on each other. Hubby would tell you that's a algebraic formula for success. I would say it seems only logical.