I finally see the point of rainy day board games

Always thought they were dumb as a kid. Wanted to be outside playing. Saw a home movie of us laughing over Monopoly last week. It showed me how close we were. Now I miss those simple afternoons.

4 comments

4 Comments

robert4241mo ago

Monopoly showed you that. I got whiplash from this post. Spent my whole childhood thinking board games were a punishment for bad weather. Now you're getting sentimental over fake money and tiny plastic hotels. Guess getting old means missing the stuff you used to complain about. The real joke is that I'd probably lose my mind for a boring Tuesday like that now too.

matthew3941mo ago

Yeah and it's not even the game itself, it's the whole dead Tuesday vibe robert424 is talking about. The sound of the dice in the cardboard tray, the dumb arguments over rent on Baltic Avenue, my sister trying to trade a railroad for a get out of jail free card. That specific boredom created its own weird world you could just live inside for a few hours. You don't get that from staring at a screen.

aaron30522d ago

My buddy's kid found his old Monopoly set last month and they played on a rainy Sunday. He said the whole time his kid was just staring at the board waiting for something to happen, like a cutscene. But my friend got totally lost in it, just moving the little shoe and counting spaces. He said for a couple hours he forgot about his phone and his bills. Came out of it feeling like he'd been somewhere else, even though nothing really happened.

wesley_jones1mo ago

Exactly... that weird little world was the whole point.