Reading the eternal hatred topic, and a post by PeteW got me remenissing.

He said that when he played Nelson Mandela at bb the first time, NM got so angry he threw the board in the air.

Well I had my doubts about this event, as I couldn't believe somebody so mild mannered would do such a thing, and then I thought about a similar event in my life...........

It was about 15 years ago, and I was playing monopoly with mummy mouse, her boyfriend and an Italian who was staying with us. A bad match up.

I was the banker and abusing it/cheating like a demon, the Italian guest and the boyfriend were ultra competitive types, and my mother kept sliding her sickly losing offspring the odd 100.

Then an argument started about how after 5 hours I was still in the game with a healthy bank balance without actually owning anything?

All eyes turned to my mother, and she did the most surprising thing. She picked up the board and launched it into the air. There was an awkward silence, and we all silently collected the various cards and houses from around the living room and neatly put the monopoly board away, never to be used again. All but my lovely little metal car, which we couldn't find. The Italian was never allowed to come and stay again. Since then we have moved house, so all hope for the little e type jag had been lost.

All this was forgotten until about a year ago, when a plant pot broke, and in the debris there was my miniature british roadster!

Oh how we laughed! actually we didn't

'you lost me my boyfriend that day harvest mouse'

'sorry mother' :(