monopoly

I decided I wasn't going to write last night, and also decided not to feel bad about it. Instead, my girlfriend helped me move out of a dorm and into my car. I have a lot less stuff now - no furniture, not much kitchen stuff, some bedding, my clothes, computer, printer. There's two available seats left in my grandfather's Camry that he's lent me for the summer.

We played monopoly today, C, and S and I. C and I were losing pretty badly to S, and just before we both went totally bankrupt, we joined forces to create one team. C kept saying "why didn't we think of this sooner, before we were going to lose anyway??" And my thought was, "we didn't band together until we had absolutely nothing left to lose - and, at that point, nothing left to gain, either. There was no chance, not even a little one, that either of us was going to win on our own. But as long as there WAS that chance, neither of us was going to want to work together."

This is why the boostraps myth keeps people from working together, maybe?

S also said, after we banded together, "Well, if I thought that you guys might win if you banded together, I might object to the arrangement. But watching you lose together might just be fun."

Huh.