Sweet Victory
Mmm, can not help to love victory…Allthough always trying to be a good sport, I can not help always wanting to win in any game involved. Wheter it is football, some quiz or a board game does not really make a difference…I just can not stand losing. I hate it. Well, I suppose that is a good personality, allthough it surely has annoyed some friends sometimes who were just looking for a relaxing ‘friendly’. Hehe….
Last week was such a moment of competition. The venue was the season meeting of my company, which always is quite informal and mainly serves to increase the ties of the different employees, especially the office staff and Management team on the one hand, and the Interim Professional who are send on secondment - like me. As an main activity, this time a table football tournament was organised, obviously continung the recent World Cup fever. Of course I wanted to participate and considering I used to play this game when I was young a lot, having my own table, and also during college-time with my friends, I realised it would be quite possible to win the tournament, depending how rusty my skills would be and how good my partner would be. It also would be a good way to show myself, being quite a newbee there.
Well, no problem with any rusty skills or a poor partner…After some friendlies before the official kick-off my skills weren’t quite that rusty at all, and my partner turned out to have played table-football a lot to during his college time too. Quite a nice team we made…We won the tournament quite easily, with 36 goal for and only 7 against. we shaked each the hand, and waited full expections of the prize. It better be good, considering the good quality-image my company tries to maintain.
Unfortunately, we had to break up our succesful partnership than…because only one price was there for the winner which could be shared! Of course we shocked by such brutal interuption of our harmony, but hey, this is Holland, we are an individualstic country so what to expect..;-). Well, it would be a final full of action and excitment, with everyone watching…My started was a bit nervous and my opponent took a 3 goal lead, but I managed to keep track and really got into the game after a while. In the end I started to play very fast and my opponent got tired I guess, he could not keep up with the speed. Final result 10-6: I was the lucky one and won the tournament! And the prize was…..the table-football-table where we played on! I must say, it is quite nice and hughe, so that it takes a prominent place in my humble appartment…Hehe….
Well, surely most of the collegues who so far hardly would have known me, would remember this :-). Now I better stop, already my Chinese friend Cici told me I should not be too proud…:-(
