Conquering the French

I went--or more accurately, I am at my friend--or more accurately, my friend's wife's house playing Scrabble. I thought...Carl is climbing Mt Olympus...(how butch is that????) and thought, hell, I'll go play Scrabble with the French girl. How hard can it be to beat the socks off her? Her first word used all the letters and was worth 76 points. She told me, as I was asking her what her mother was doing. She was playing some kind of crossword, in French, that looked difficult. Drino said, "Did I tell you?..it runs in the family."

No. She hadn't told me. She had 2 gazillion points when I reached 42.