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ORIGINAL: Griswold

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ORIGINAL: DesFIP

This is not a life altering problem. But lately he's had more free time and has started playing the same online games that I do. And a game I have played semi-regularly over a period of years is now something that he plays for two hours and has far outpassed my best score.

And I'm having trouble accepting that. Now I do know that since he's an engineer by training, he is better spatially speaking than I am. But understanding that intellectually and accepting it viscerally are two different things.

Suddenly having him beat my score is taking away my pleasure from the game. So how do I handle this?

See I said it wasn't a life altering problem. Just a small bit of ego deflation going on.

He's an engineer.  A numbers guy.

Guarenteed, he can tell you EXACTLY what kind of gas mileage he gets in his car.

Here's how you play this:

First three weeks...you sneak out at whatever time of the morning you need to and you start putting a gallon of gas in his car once a week, every 3 days...whatever it takes for him to come home and tell you "Honey...I don't know what it is...but I'm getting 3 kabillion miles per gallon on my 2003 Hupmobile".

Congratulate him, tell him how you've always been impressed with the way he drives and "I'm not surprised you get better gas mileage than me"....Mister Big Stuff has been established.

Next two weeks....siphon out a gallon every 3 days.

It's your game...you make the rules...and you win every time you play :)

(Glad I could help).

If the above doesn't do the trick....teach the cat to shit in his shoes.

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ORIGINAL: Arrrchibald

Understandable.  This is what a lot of psychologists would refer to as: OMFG u got pwn3d by a n00b!!!11