Thursday, April 07, 2005
MONOPOLY NIGHT
For most people, they spend their time with friends going to malls, shopping, bar hopping, drinking, arcading, gimiking and stuff like that but in my particular circle of friends, nothing and I mean nothing, gets the blood running than monopoly. Yes, the all famous tycoon game with the freakishly pasty old Pringles guy as the mascot, Monopoly.
We have taken Monopoly to the extremes, ladies and gentlemen. Lasting for more than nine hours a game, I dare say, we have taken the boardgame to the peak! History was somehow born out of this game and it all started when Glenn said, "I'm bored, let's play Monopoly" after that, everything was pretty much downhill. What was interesting though was the fact that it has lasted of five long years. We have known each other far too well to trust each other that the game turns into a sophistically plotted mind game!
We even made rules to spice things up like the INFAMOUS immunity rules. There was this one point where Myles didn't have any money or property but he was immune to all spots except Boardwalk. I called him a iskwater hahaha. There was this one time, when I landed in jail three consecutive times thereby, saving myself from the onslaught or orange, red and yello lanes hence, the Dodger was born. There was that time when I only owned one lot yet managed to beat the odds and won. Glenn with his supreme rule over Monopoly, all trades go through him. Richmond with his "Who so gets Boardwalk in the first turn, loses" actually works! I lost and so did Myles haha. The one time where I saw a friend's spirit shattered as he was one turn from victory when he landed on "Pay for Street Repairs" and bellowed a bitter "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" out into the night at 3am after a ten hour game, man it was awesome. But for one reason or another, for five years, two of us have NEVER won a game of monopoly and perhaps monopoly night will change that.
Monopoly night starts tomorrow. Instead of the normal monopoly in an overnight scene, the whole day will be dedicated to monopoly. We got an empty house, a bowl of chips and Spongebob the movie to entertain us. Everything else is up to body and spirit and luck. I worship luck hahaha. So tomorrow is the game, the mother of all Monopoly games for the year. We haven't had a good game for some time now and I know, we're all itching for a game.
We have our own little world I know but who else can turn a seemlessly boring game into a game of an era? hahaha. Cheers!
Riding the Lightning
9:00 PM
