Devin landed on ten, of course, while I landed on seven. “I think I’ll go to college first,” he said and spun the wheel. When it was my turn, I placed my car on the college path and realized how biased the board was. I mean, I hadn’t gone to college first nor did I go straight to work. No, I started both at the same time.
“Something wrong?”
“I just think this board is biased. I mean what if you don’t want to get married or buy a house? What if you have to work while you go to college? This board is like the ideal life path. There should be bad things on this board, like you lose your parents and fight to keep the house, or a spot for divorce or even premature death.”
Devin looked at me like I was crazy and at that moment I did feel a little out of it. I mean this board presented the ideal life that anyone would want to have.
“Sorry, I’ll spin the wheel.” I spun and passed all the tiles and landed at choosing a career. “Also when you spin the wheel, if you land on a high number you pass up all the good things. What if I wanted,” I looked down at the board, “to get a life tile for making new friends or make money by selling back my books.”
“You spin too fast and you miss out on what Life has to offer. You spin too slow and Life passes you by,” he said as he himself spun a five. I was already way ahead of him as an accountant making $60,000.
“Well, see I just got a part-time job. It has school and work at the same time,” Devin said as he picked up $5000 dollars for his job.
“Except I make more than that.” I spun the wheel again.
“Getting married already?” Devin asked. “I haven’t even gotten a job yet.”
“Well, you better catch up.” I placed the blue man in the spot next to me in the car.
“Is that me in your car?”
I laughed. “Sure, why not? Dev, we just got married and look, we’re going on our honeymoon getaway.”
“Where did we go?”
“Hawaii, of course. You won the raffle at work, remember?”
We continued playing until we both reached the end.
“I won,” Devin announced after we counted our totals.
“Well, technically I won too. I mean we’re married. What’s yours is mine. What’s mine is yours. Including that boat you ended up buying and the luxury cruise. Though if you ever paid $35,000 for a cruise I don’t think we’d be married anymore.”
“Good to know,” Devin laughed. He stood up and took the casserole out of the oven. “You ready to eat?”
I nodded and stood to help. We sat back down and Devin looked over at me. “What did you want to do now? I said you could choose.”
“I kind of want to play again. I had fun and I want to see what Life has to offer me this time. Maybe a husband who’s more than just an athlete.”
“I still won with that career.”
“Only because my house flooded and I kept having to buy useless things like a lakeside cabin and pay for summer school for each of our four kids.”
“Hey, our kids really needed that summer school. They would have been held back.”
“Well, they didn’t get their smarts from me.” I smiled.
Devin laughed. We spent the rest of the time eating and spinning the wheel, making fun of our pretend life and naming our children as we loaded them in our plastic cars.
“I have too many kids to fit in my car,” I laughed as I landed on ‘adopt twins.’
“There is no way we would adopt twins on top of the four we already have,” Devin said seriously.
“But Christopher and Jenny just touched our hearts. How can we say no to two cute babies from a deprived background?”
Devin sighed, “Fine, you win. We’ll take them.”
I laughed at his lack of enthusiasm. “I’m glad you approve. Now I just need to write a best seller or find buried treasure to make some fast cash.”
“Where are you going to find buried treasure?”
“The backyard of my lakeside cabin I just had to buy.” I had landed on it twice in two games.
“Maybe shoot for writing that best seller.” He smiled as he spun. “Or you could just live off my Nobel Prize money.”
“How is it that you win all these things?” I asked, having to pay $5,000 to go to a Hollywood premiere.
“Luck, I guess. It’s all a matter of the spin of the wheel,” he said as he moved his car ten spaces landing on Baby Boy! “I don’t think we can handle any more kids.”
“Well, it’s completely your fault for being so charming and sexy. I can’t help but jump your bones.” I raised my eyebrows at him suggestively.