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Another thing that happened over the weekend, which I am still talking about two days into the new week, is that I bought a new card game, Monopoly Deal. This was definitely the second high point of the long weekend, a little lower down the scale only from the movie discussed yesterday.

But let me backtrack a little. What I forgot to mention yesterday is that I’m not writing this in school.

I am actually sitting up in bed tapping this out on a laptop suffering from a fever probably brought on by being out all day in the sun the past three days, having been buying stuff in different malls for spa usage.

I am not ashamed to say that I had gone as far as Pure Gold Jr. in Carmel Mall, to Liana’s Discount City (where they still sell talcum powder in those ellipsoid shaped cylinders), to Walter Mart at Crossing near where the new SM is being built, to the SM mall in the city to the south where the former mayor was the Star for All Seasons. The only places not gone to were Robinson’s and Fiesta World Mall in the aforementioned city. It was just too hot that day that we gave up and rode an air conditioned bus going back, which I guess was lucky that I only got a fever from all that travel.

Anyway, in the Toy Kingdom section of the supermarket of that SM, I was able to see Monopoly Deal.

It was selling for less that 800 pesos with a revolutionary shuffle shaker for dealing the 110 cards included.

Except that when we opened the box, it was less than 110 cards, half less in fact, the all important property cards that is the backbone of any Monopoly game. So we had to go back to SM, a 20 peso ride away.

We went to customer service, who called a representative from the toy section. Since the packet of cards was shrink wrapped, we suggested that maybe it had fallen among the shelves or behind them when one of the customers opened the unsealed box while shopping. Sadly though, he was not able to find them.

He was able to bring back two sets of property cards: one from a regular Monopoly board game (which we could not use because they did not have the same size or backing as the deck), and another from a smaller pack of the same game, without the shuffle shaker, costing less than 400 pesos.

This new pack was still missing two cards, two railroad cards, in fact, but I said I would be satisfied with that, at least we could still play it, even by just changing two of the other more numerous cards, such as Pass Go, to railroads.

But that would mean that it was the 400 peso deck that would be missing cards now, and I was willing to buy that as well, just so that we could have a full deck and around 53 extra cards at that.

So I was surprised when the attendant said he would just give us the 400 peso deck. I knew it would be docked from his pay, since his bosses (as a new employer) would say it was his fault for not sealing the box in the first place.

To ease things I told the customer service personnel that I would write him a letter of commendation.

And I did. The problem is that entire precursor has left me not having enough space to talk about the game itself today.

That is something that will have to be left for tomorrow, third day to talk about the weekend.