Area Family Finishes Game Of Monopoly

Story by Logan Thompson 

| Published Nov 11, 2008

Barack Obama wasn’t the only one making history last week.

On Nov. 5, four Lincoln residents accomplished the impossible when they finished an entire game of Monopoly.

During an overnight power outage in the southeast part of the city, David Whitt, 49, thought a board game would be a good way to pass the time with his wife and two children. 

“It was dark in the closet, so I just grabbed the first game I touched,” Whitt said. “By the time I realized what it was and went to put it back, my daughter had already spotted it.”

Whitt’s daughter, Elizabeth, 16, described her first Monopoly experience as “slow-paced,” “excruciating” and “kind of like the time a gob of mayonnaise fell into my cereal when I wasn’t paying attention and I ate it a little”.
    
Whitt said that although he’ll never attempt anything like this again, he feels lucky to have been the only member of his family to sustain injury during the ordeal. 

“About six hours in, I was so bored I just stuck my hand in the candle we were using for light.”