It Just Happens to be One of the Worst Feelings in the World...

So it’s pay day. You have free tickets to a show your boyfriend is going to love, but because it’s pay day, you have to pay your bills first…leaving you with, what you think is, a fair budgeted amount for the remaining two weeks until pay day rolls around again. “Great,” you think to yourself. “Since we’re going to this hilarious show…I’m going to make a date out of it and take him out to dinner too.” Fabulous. Then you go to dinner…pay…only to leave broke…your budgeted amount you have to spend for the next two weeks…gone.

Yep…depressing…can’t even treat my boyfriend for an evening without having to mooch off him for the next 13 days. Awesome. How discouraging is that?!

The woes of Frustration.

$100,000 was within my grasps…and how would I win this $100,000 you ask? Well through McDonald’s Monopoly Game of course. They even gave you double chances for winning this year by not just collecting the physical game pieces, but by taking the codes on these game pieces and playing virtually online. After collecting well over 100 game pieces…we’re talking two large coffees and two hash browns every morning for the entire month of October…I won diddly squat. That’s right…not a penny. I collected every game piece with the exception of the most important ones… Boardwalk (dark blue), Mediterranean Avenue (purple), Vermont Avenue (light blue), Tennessee Avenue (orange), Kentucky Avenue (red), Ventnor Avenue (yellow), Pennsylvania Avenue (green), and Shortline Railroad…yes...I missed one from every property.

And can you believe these were the exact same pieces I couldn’t manage to land on online? What are the chances? Apparently very high for McDonald’s, and non-existent for those looking to win. So now the all important question…..how rigged is the McDonald’s Monopoly Game? I mean literally…what are the chances to receive all those pieces except for the specific few…manipulation is clearly the first word that comes to mind. Undoubtedly the only person who wins here is McDonald’s….bringing in suckers like me to buy more…making this fast food nightmare financially stronger…and pushing the chump more towards frustration and broke-dom.

And p.s…..out of those 100+ game pieces I collected…I won 2 medium fries, 2 breakfast sandwiches, a cheese burger, and a mcflurry….6 instant win game pieces out of 100…even the chances of winning food is slim-to-none. They could have at least given us that. After all…how much is this monster money maker going to miss out on by giving out a few fries here and there? Not nearly enough to even feel a bump.