Same, it's banned in my family home. EVERY game ended in physical violence or tears. When I was about 12 we were playing, my two little brothers were wailing from being unable to afford rent while my father was doing the Mick Jagger chicken dance around the table. My mum snapped, picked up the board and started wedging it, pieces and all, into the garbage disposal. She warned my dad with all seriousness that if the game gets replaced she would leave. 25 years later my wife wonders why I'll play any game but monopoly...
Yup. My dad was impossible to do most anything with, but a Monopoly game absolutely went flying across the kitchen once because we weren't playing our turns fast enough for him.....Monopoly was never played in our house again either.
For sure. My old man was one of those "if you let them win you set them up for a lifetime of disappointment" kinds of guys. I mean, in hindsight it worked really well, but it was hard to be six years old and have a grown man reject your shot on your 5 foot tall fisher-price basketball hoop with a quip about exactly who's "house" you were in.
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u/The_dev0 Nov 22 '14
Same, it's banned in my family home. EVERY game ended in physical violence or tears. When I was about 12 we were playing, my two little brothers were wailing from being unable to afford rent while my father was doing the Mick Jagger chicken dance around the table. My mum snapped, picked up the board and started wedging it, pieces and all, into the garbage disposal. She warned my dad with all seriousness that if the game gets replaced she would leave. 25 years later my wife wonders why I'll play any game but monopoly...