Friday, October 05, 2007

McD has a monopoly on my waking thoughts ...

Woo-hoo, Monopoly at McDonald's is here. I don't know why I always get sucked into this "gambling for the retarded AND obese", but have ever since I was eleven or twelve. So far the investment in my eventual triple bypass has paid off: I've won two video games from Real Arcade and a free small coffee. As Patrick would say, I'm "Living the dream".

To be fair to Ronald & Co., the Monopoly "Here and Now" video game that I won is actually a lot of fun. It forces you to auction or buy every property you land on, making the game quick, and forces a strategic plan. Having said this, it is unsurprising that I lost my first game. I haven't yet played another. I made a couple of stupid moves: one being choosing to bid on a property that I could have just bought, and thereby blocked the computer's ownership of that color-block. I won that battle, but ended up spending about 75% over what I could have just bought it for out-right.

Well, back to work. I must work - to make money - to buy more McDonald's ... Viva Monopoli!!

1 comment:

Sullivans said...

OMG I am laughing... you are so funny...I have always wondered why you are so into the lame McDonalds monopoly..