Monopoly

I love playing games. It is one of my favorite pastimes. I would play solitaire or I would buy puzzle books and spend my time doing them. We would often play Gin Rummy at night or we learned a 2 man spades that we would modify the rules just to make it interesting. I would often ask him to play a game with me. I was very good at games.

We tried playing monopoly one day. I knew that in general I made savvy business decisions in Monopoly. I knew how to negotiate to get what I needed and then built up the property in order to maximize my profits. I knew I knew I was not the best  monopoly player but I could handle my own, but for some strange reason I was getting beat quite badly. Where I hadn't made a monopoly yet he had about two and they were both outfitted with hotels. I didn't think my dice rolls were that bad. He continued to just demolish me in monopoly. I could not understand it, perhaps it was just an off day for me.

 We played the following night again. He was pretty confident and smug. Again as the game took off I was on the losing the end. This is not normal for me so I started to analyze my movements and his. Then I noticed that he was spending a lot more than he was receiving from rent. I started to keep a mental tab on his money, finally I confronted him about the discrepancy. He said I was being paranoid and that he was just a better player. Then I saw it so slightly out of his pocket, and orange piece of paper. Aha he was caught red handed! That's when I realized the man was uber competitive. He apparently had been taking 500's slowly but surely from the bank and hiding them in his pocket. Then taking one out when the need called for it. Cheater!