My husband is a ruthless capitalist. Every night he beats the rest of the family at Monopoly (we play games during the holidays -- I was the Old Maid twice on Christmas Day). Somehow he ends up with hotels scattered across the board, just waiting to bankrupt the rest of us. "Why can't we have some socialism in this game," my son wailed as he forked out for yet another expensive night at one of my husband's properties. "I could stay at a youth hostel then."
I always feel sorry for my kids when they are losing, and let them off debts and trade off properties in their favor. But my husband -- he's a modern-day Mr Potter.
My son has been reading tips on the Internet on how to win at Monopoly (try to get the orange set of properties; don't worry about the cheap purple ones as no one ever lands on them, etc.) so he's more hopeful for tonight's game.
3 comments:
Beware!! I was whooped all my childhood by that ruthless capitalist! Yes, I am his poor downtrodden sister who was whooped at drafts, chess, snakes and ladders,you name it from the age of 2 until I finally realised around the age of 12 that I was never going to win. He later (in our mid forties) admitted that he used to steal from the bank!! He is just a common thief!!!!!!
I am shocked Paula! I'm calling the divorce lawyer TOMORROW.
Isn't that what capitalists are though - thieves?
"La propriété, c'est le vol!" - not Marx or one of his followers, but Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, eight years before the publication of the Communist Manifesto.
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