I’m a pro Wii Tennis player.  Being a pro at Wii tennis means I’ve taken breaks out of working on websites during the day (since I work at home) and I’ve reached the 1000 mark on the graph.  It’s a really exciting feeling when you’ve won a tennis match and your graph pops up showing your line finally hitting the 1000 mark.  I stuck both fists high in the air with my head bowed and said in a low intense voice, “Tennis Prooooooooooooooooooo…” But instead of stopping and being satisfied with pro status, I kept playing.

Knowing the joy that came with the 1000 mark, you can only imagine what I felt when I hit 2000.  I almost slipped on the wood floor when I landed from jumping off the couch and twirling in the air. My line was now at the tip top of the graph.  That was it for tennis; I had progressed as far as possible.  Before I put away the Wii remote and went back to work, I wondered what would happen if I played one more game.  Where would my line go?  Would the graph extend to show a 3000 mark?  Would the line go out of the graph and off into oblivion?  I figured it would probably stay there at the top and level off.

When I came back to play again, I stared down Elisa and Sarah, my opponents, with fierceness.  In a single match I couldn’t let the opposing team score more than two points or else I would get a negative score.  It no longer mattered that I won, I had to win with greatness.  The stadium was filled with cheering Miis ready to erupt with applause or aww’s.  It was my serve.  After a few hits back and forth, I miscalculated and wacked the ball off to the left of the court, way out of bounds.  When a ball is out of bounds, the computer Mii will almost always go for it if the ball is traveling high and slow enough.  I couldn’t believe it when Elisa sprung into the air flying toward the misguided ball I had just hit.  The spectators looked confused when she landed in the stadium, in a seat next to Peter’s mom.

She was stuck!  More amazing than that, she had hit the ball mid-air on her way to taking a seat in the rafters and it was flying back at me!  Since Elisa was taking a break from the game, it was really easy to score a point.  Sarah was so confused by the whole thing that she didn’t even go for the ball when I hit it back onto their side of the court.  Elisa decided to join us again at the beginning of the next serve. 

After winning the game, I was brought back to my beloved graph.  The line looked like it had slightly risen above the graph.  I couldn’t really tell so I played another game and won.  It had!  The line was coming out of the graph.  I kept playing and winning and soon the line was up into the words near the top of the page.  What an achievement!  I better get back to work now.