Don't Gamble
Okay, I'm seeing some of my old friends. They suggest going to a casino at 12 on a Monday. I go with them, because I have nothing better to do.
All right, my friends have seen the anti-gambling ads, so they know not to mess around. My friends look for the cheapest black jack table they could. They couldn't find one under $5, so they go to a $10 table. My friend's dad drives a Beemer that has the original German settings, and a Martini set upstairs.
While they're playing, a woman past 60 with too much make up comes up. She's a pro, playing two hands at once. She doesn't speak a word.
5 minutes into the game, I'm thinking, "Is that the same 50 dollar bill she was playing with earlier?"
When it's done, my friend's got a bit left of the 40 dollars he's spent. The woman leaves, silently, $140 dollars poorer. She doesn't stop for a second, heading straight to the 25 cent machines located directly behind her.
I talk about this with my friends later on. One friend says, "Oh, but she was stupid." He then went back to his game. It was a mini horse track. You could bet on the miniature horses, with all the facts of a real horse. They had the same motion, over and over. If you didn't want to watch the miniature horses, they had two giant size screens showing ugly pixelated horses, with graphics befitting a Sega Genesis, and the guy who was winning. They raced continously. You could play for 25 cents.
Fun Fact: $800 per month is a moderate gambler, according to a brochure that the Casino hands out about gambling problems.
Spaßtatsache: $800 ist pro Monat ein mäßigt Spieler, gemäß einer Broschüre, die das Kasino um Spielenprobleme ausgibt.
All right, my friends have seen the anti-gambling ads, so they know not to mess around. My friends look for the cheapest black jack table they could. They couldn't find one under $5, so they go to a $10 table. My friend's dad drives a Beemer that has the original German settings, and a Martini set upstairs.
While they're playing, a woman past 60 with too much make up comes up. She's a pro, playing two hands at once. She doesn't speak a word.
5 minutes into the game, I'm thinking, "Is that the same 50 dollar bill she was playing with earlier?"
When it's done, my friend's got a bit left of the 40 dollars he's spent. The woman leaves, silently, $140 dollars poorer. She doesn't stop for a second, heading straight to the 25 cent machines located directly behind her.
I talk about this with my friends later on. One friend says, "Oh, but she was stupid." He then went back to his game. It was a mini horse track. You could bet on the miniature horses, with all the facts of a real horse. They had the same motion, over and over. If you didn't want to watch the miniature horses, they had two giant size screens showing ugly pixelated horses, with graphics befitting a Sega Genesis, and the guy who was winning. They raced continously. You could play for 25 cents.
Fun Fact: $800 per month is a moderate gambler, according to a brochure that the Casino hands out about gambling problems.
Spaßtatsache: $800 ist pro Monat ein mäßigt Spieler, gemäß einer Broschüre, die das Kasino um Spielenprobleme ausgibt.
posted by Marshall McMahon at 4:58 PM
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