Similar to a basketball player for a girls HS team who broke her foot and was 1 point shy of the school record and the other team let her hobble downcourt for an uncontested layup.
"Similar to a basketball player for a girls HS team who broke her foot and was 1 point shy of the school record and the other team let her hobble downcourt for an uncontested layup."
I think our kids are going to make despite us.
Sounds like a plot line to a King of the Hill episode.
Similar to a basketball player for a girls HS team who broke her foot and was 1 point shy of the school record and the other team let her hobble downcourt for an uncontested layup.
It is unearned, and therefore meaningless. You feel much better having won the trophy because through determination and willpower, you won because you were better than everyone else at the time. An accomplishment worked hard for.