Monopoly

Ok, so like I mentioned in the previous post...when Ry is here, we try to hang out as much as possible. So with us not having cable or even a tv downstairs, we've been playing a lot of games. We have Monopoly (the here & now version...which is the same it just has updated places on the board and larger amounts of money) but when we've usually played in the past, we just played how we always played. This time Ryan was reading the rules and directions and did you know that when you land on the free parking space, it really means nothing? I grew up playing that you if you landed on one of the spots where you have to pay taxes or something that you would put it in the middle of the board and whoever lands on free parking gets to collect the money. I like it that way. But according to the rules, you pay all your money to the bank and the free parking space is just a free space...nothing exciting happens. Am I the only one who ever played this way?