Wii is out to get mii - and by Wii I don't mean us...

When there was money enough to buy one and one on the shelf at Toys-R-Us, we (us, not the game) bought a Wii (the game, not us).  Overall, very fun.  The issue is that the game does not like me.  You might wonder if this "techno-paranoia" is unfounded, but something happened the other night that confirmed it in my mind.

On the Wii, you set-up Miis.  A Mii is a character that you create who plays the game for you on the screen.  (Mine is short and chubby, with square glasses, goatee and spiked dark hair.)  Anytime one plays the game they simply select their mii and play away...

When we first got the console I created a Mii for almost everyone we knew.  Hysterical!  My theory was that if I showed no mercy when I created myself then I certainly didn't have to hold back creating others - much to the chagrin of my older and/or heavier friends...  but we all have a good laugh about it.

         Ok, I have a good laugh.

...and our friends come by to play...  They don't show up with their own controllers like in the commercials, but they come for a game of bowling, golf and sometimes tennis...  

...and they all bowl straight...

    Not me, I throw the ball and it hooks to the left; kind of like I've pointed myself at the gutter on purpose.

...but anyone else...

They swing the arm.  They release the ball.  The ball rolls down the lane.  The ball hits the center pin.  Not always a strike, but always straight... always, that is, until the other night.

So the other night, Cricket and I had a little party to celebrate Nanciboo's birthday.  She came by expecting dinner with just the two of us; a half hour after she got here, four of her friends rolled in - a little surprise.  Dinner was nice (I made beef stew)...  and after dinner, we turned on the Wii.

In the interest of time we decided not to create new Miis for all the guests (tho I had already set up one for Nanciboo that looks just like her - and makes me howl with laughter).  One of the guests used my Mii...  I was playing pool - since only four players can bowl at a time.  The guest using my Mii is 6'3, thin and left handed; I'm right handed.

...and then he threw the ball...

...and it hooked...    ...to the left...

Tell me, what are the odds that someone nearly a foot taller than I am, with a completely different build and an opposite dominant hand would throw the ball and duplicate my curve...  ...no way, the Wii thought my Mii was me, but my Mii wasn't me - it was someone else.  Someone unlike me in every way...

I began to suspect 

my theory correct 

and was just not prepared for what happened next.

You see, it was Nanciboo's birthday and she was bowling in last place (the console at least leaves me that much)...  She remarked that it was her birthday and that the others should let her win.  

...I guess they took her seriously...   (I don't have that gene and could never bring myself to even let a four-year-old niece win at Candyland)

Cricket, who was up next, turned left and purposefully threw the ball at the gutter.  The ball, flung with tremendous force, hurled itself to the left and then...

...it hooked to the right and slammed into the center pin...

STRIKE

...not once, but TWICE this happened...

Cricket was getting preferential treatment!!!

"Unfair!" I screamed before I even realized that I was watching the bowling game;  my mouth hanging open...

Playstation 3 ... $400.00

Games for Playstation 3  ...  $49.00 each

Accidentally crushing the Wii by backing your car over it  ...  Priceless

-silly