I remember one day walking into a 7/11, in maybe 2002, and there were 2 guys in suits, totally dishevelled, collars undone, looking like they’ve been awake for 3 days,
depression coating their faces, and they had a stack of scratch tickets that they were silently just scratching off.
The story I have in my head is that their business fell apart and this was some past ditch desperate attempt to save it with the little money they had left. I have no idea what actually happened but here we are 20+ years later and I still think about them occasionally.
The one thing that going to a real casino taught me is that, despite what Hollywood would have us believe, casinos are not full of impeccably dressed classy people, but very old retirees that look like they only have a few years left to live, and disheveled men who look less well dressed than me in my PJs at home, who are gambling away large sums of money in a fit of anxiety and addiction.
I associate my time in Las Vegas mostly with elderly people with oxygen tanks, chain smoking while they put coin after coin in the slot machine. Just sad.
Vegas is a good place to go if your idea of a good time is eating and hanging around the pool.
Other than that, it’s a glittering shithole in the desert built on the losses of prior visitors.
Hoover Dam and Valley of Fire State Park are both cool stops that aren’t too far away. I’ve never been to the Pinball Museum so I’ll have to check that one out next time.
And they took the pull handles away because they can siphon money out of retirement accounts much faster if the victim player only needs to press a button.
Oh yes. The bankruptcy of Trump’s casino was a thing to behold. I wish I could find the video of the people who worked with him back in the day as they all remarked as to just how absolutely ignorant he was about all aspects of both gambling and managing a casino.
But with the power of daddy’s money, he “earned” his position as CEO/owner nonetheless!
Which is already so cringe it hurts, but then to turn around and use that to prove how “well” Trump - not daddy, but himself - could run the entire nation…
As a nation, we deserve our fate I suppose.:-( We should do better. We need better. We won’t survive unless we aim to be better.
That makes me think of the chinese guys that took cash from the bank they worked at to buy lottery tickets. The idea was to use the winnings to pay back the money and keep the rest.
They got lucky and it worked the first time. Then they decided to try again and lost.
I remember one day walking into a 7/11, in maybe 2002, and there were 2 guys in suits, totally dishevelled, collars undone, looking like they’ve been awake for 3 days, depression coating their faces, and they had a stack of scratch tickets that they were silently just scratching off.
The story I have in my head is that their business fell apart and this was some past ditch desperate attempt to save it with the little money they had left. I have no idea what actually happened but here we are 20+ years later and I still think about them occasionally.
The one thing that going to a real casino taught me is that, despite what Hollywood would have us believe, casinos are not full of impeccably dressed classy people, but very old retirees that look like they only have a few years left to live, and disheveled men who look less well dressed than me in my PJs at home, who are gambling away large sums of money in a fit of anxiety and addiction.
Really depressing crap.
And smoke. Don’t forget about the smoke
I associate my time in Las Vegas mostly with elderly people with oxygen tanks, chain smoking while they put coin after coin in the slot machine. Just sad.
Vegas is a good place to go if your idea of a good time is eating and hanging around the pool. Other than that, it’s a glittering shithole in the desert built on the losses of prior visitors.
https://www.pinballmuseum.org/
Also, the Hoover Dam is nearby.
Hoover Dam and Valley of Fire State Park are both cool stops that aren’t too far away. I’ve never been to the Pinball Museum so I’ll have to check that one out next time.
The Grand Canyon is only like 2 hours away as well. Don’t listen to the other commenter Las Vegas (and surrounding area) is a blast.
But I do actually think hanging around a pool, eating sounds like a good time.
Now you just hook your debit card to the machine and you don’t even have to put a coin in!
And they took the pull handles away because they can siphon money out of retirement accounts much faster if the
victimplayer only needs to press a button.That’s sad. Pulling the lever was such fantastic part of the experience. Now we can’t call them “One Arm Bandits.”
We use to live in a society.
And yet Donald Trump still managed to lose money somehow, which should have really told us something about his supposed “business accumen”.
Maybe he had some morals about it…
Trump has no morals.
For being a good sport I’m upvoting your comment to help balance it out:-).
Nope, 100% sarcasm.
You should add /s to the end otherwise people will think you are serious.
I think if anyone could belive i was serious they wouldn’t accept any new information like a /s as it doesn’t align with their world view.
Wait, I thought /s stood for “serious”
Oh yes. The bankruptcy of Trump’s casino was a thing to behold. I wish I could find the video of the people who worked with him back in the day as they all remarked as to just how absolutely ignorant he was about all aspects of both gambling and managing a casino.
But with the power of daddy’s money, he “earned” his position as CEO/owner nonetheless!
Which is already so cringe it hurts, but then to turn around and use that to prove how “well” Trump - not daddy, but himself - could run the entire nation…
As a nation, we deserve our fate I suppose.:-( We should do better. We need better. We won’t survive unless we aim to be better.
Oh for real. Walking through a casino is like being immersed in despair and obsession. I find no enjoyment in it at all.
The guy who started FedEx literally put his company’s payroll on a roulette table just to make enough to stay in business.
That makes me think of the chinese guys that took cash from the bank they worked at to buy lottery tickets. The idea was to use the winnings to pay back the money and keep the rest.
They got lucky and it worked the first time. Then they decided to try again and lost.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Bank_of_China_robbery
gambling is a helluva drug