Enforced gamble
We were in Las Vegas for a conference and all my colleagues were hitting the tables and throwing more money around than I'd ever be comfortable doing. But I was in Vegas! I had to have at least one try! Poker or roulette were too much of an unknown to me, so I went for what I'd been brought up on; one armed bandits (thanks to my Grandma's little flutters on the penny machines in the summer holidays). So I stuck a couple of dollars in to the nearest machine, pulled the handle, watched the wheels spin round, thunk to a stop and then stood in shock as $100 rattled into the chute. I scooped it up, walked away and didn't gamble for the rest of the trip (unless you count speeding through Death Valley at 120mph in a Rent-A-Wreck car with dodgy brakes).
( SteamedCleaner, Fri 8 May 2009, 22:03, Reply)