Happy Monday!
So John came over yesterday and depite recent inquires as to the wedding date, hes JUST a friend =P (besides hes way too old for me, hes 44 and divorced). Anyway he brought over Monopoly. You know, the board game where you somehow end up with even less money than you have in real life? First off, this is probably the newest Monopoly game I've ever played. The money and properties were all stuck together, even the pieces were shiny!
I started to wonder why it hadnt gotten much use, and it didnt take long to figure out. John plays like hardcore Monopoly. I'm kind of conservative usually, I dont buy like the expensive yellow/green or dark blue properties because they cost an arm and a leg, cost a ton to build up and when I have owned them, no one has ever landed there. John buys everything. If I land on something and dont buy it, he'll snap it up, even if he has to mortgage his other properties to do it.
Well needless to say, after hours of playing, I ended up with all the oranges and reds and utilities and railroads, he ended up with almost everything else and no less than four houses on all the dark purples, light blues, light purples, yellows, and dark blues. Needless to say, this didnt end well for yours truly.
I hadnt played in years and at the end, told him I had fun (kind of), and mentioned I'd definitely play him again (in 10 years or so). Now, I used to consider myself a fairly good player so this kinda had me wondering if I really was as good as I used to think. Maybe I'm just not cut out for the high stakes world of real estate?