Monopoly

So uh we had a power outage a couple of hours ago. I was in the kitchen trying to make cup brownie when I heard a loud bang and out went the lights. The next thing I knew my room mate was weakly calling my name like she was in a horror movie and I went missing. Given the context of the situation I was like “wow for reals?” but I went and grabbed my phone, and everything was alright. It was just a power outage and I was alright with that until I realized I was going to have no light, no internet and not even a microwave to make my goddamn brownie. I was going to resort to my 3DS until my other room mate brought out Monopoly.

I haven't played the board game version of Monopoly in years. My first ever taste of Monopoly was on the computer, and that was in the early 2000s because the Chinese gaming industry was actually pretty advanced. The graphics were bright, colorful and 3D, and there were heaps of options. So basically my impression of Monopoly stemmed from that. Then when my room mates set up the board game I was soooo confused, because the rules I learnt were kinda different. Apparently you can only buy houses if you own the entire street, and you could insta-upgrade to hotels on your turn, for any property, as long as you had money. Because I was unlucky enough to not have a monopoly of anything at the start of the game, it was basically gg from there. The fact that my room mates (both of them) had bullshit luck was another factor, I guess. One of them sat on like 26 dollars for a 3rd of the game, with all but her hotels mortgaged, and landing on like....anything would've screwed her over, but she managed to stay alive until I managed to land on her death pit hotels twice. My other room mate avoided that area for like 6 consecutive crossings or something like that, and I somehow ended up in gaol whenever someone crossed my turf.

The moral of this story? Justice is dead and I'm going to marry a banker.

--------Wrote this last night, internet died later in the night for some reason, possibly related to power outage-----