My daughters school summer fair
I was roped in to help on a stall, and got 'the wheel of fortune'.

£2 a go. You spin the wheel, and if it stops on one of the places with a star, you win a prize. Some of the prizes were pretty good - £100 vouchers, Bundles with bottles of champagne and DVD's etc.

However, something made me really uncomfortble. It was really busy, and there was a constant stream of people coughing up their £2 for a go. Probably 1 in 12 would win.

Among all the players were the kids. There were a few who were absolutely gripped by it, and kept coming back to play again, and again. They'd pay the first go with a £2 coin, then come back with a £1 coin, and 2 50ps. Then they come back with a big fistful of silver - obviously scraping together the last few pennies they (or their parents) had.

I know it was for their school and all that, but I felt really bad to be taking £10 off of 9 year old kids so they could gamble, and win fuck all.

Saving grace, we had a pot of lollipops. I gave all the losers one. Stupid little bastards seemed just as happy with that as they did with a £120 Picnic hamper.
(username failed moderation, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 14:10, 4 replies)

If you allowed 9 year olds to play a gambling game with alcohol prizes then you were breaking at least one law.
Fuck 'em. They'd only spend it on WKD and aerosols to inhale.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 14:41, closed)

Thought
did occur to me, but nobody else seemed to care.
(username failed moderation, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 15:26, closed)

It's broken britain.
I blame muslamic correctness gone mad.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 15:27, closed)

I might add
that in mitigation, there were 3 people at a time working on this stall, and I got to hang out with a bunch of Milfs for the afternoon.
(username failed moderation, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 17:30, closed)