In The Simpsons episode "Homie the Clown", Krusty bets $5,000 he earned franchising his name against the Globetrotters, telling his financial advisor, "I thought the Generals were due!"
This reminded me of a vacation that my wife and our friends, Vinnie and Kate,had taken about 7 years ago. We all decided to go to Loss Wages Nevada, that's a Las Vegas joke,for a 3 day vacation. It was really a nice trip, if you have never been there before. While we were there we gambled a little, very little, as all of us are not into giving our money away and we also traveled around to see some of the sites around Vegas. We all went to the Hoover Dam. That's some dam dam, a Hoover Dam joke. We rented a boat and cruised on Lake Mead, very cool. We took a day trip out to Bryce Canyon, very cool as well. And we also stayed right in Vegas and visited some of the great casino's.
Getting back to the sure thing.On the our last day we had to wait for a late flight that evening. So we had to give up our rooms early. The casino hotel , we were staying at, gave us one room so we could all take showers and prepare for the flight that evening. While we were all waiting for the shower's to be taken, we were sitting at the bar and watching this group of senior citizens putting hundred dollar bills into the slot machines and win double or triple their investment. We watched these people do this for about 1 hour and a half. Well the light bulb went off above all of our heads. Let's get a hundred bucks up and make some easy money. So we all scraped up the hundred bucks and fed it to one of these machines. I said , before we started, that I wanted to buy a new golf club with my part of the winnings. We all said what we wanted and then began pulling the handle. Well after about three minutes of great expectation we had come up penniless. Zip ,zilch, notto, nothing. I wonder now if this group of senior citizens were a set up by the casino's to get you to drop your last 100 bucks into these money eating machines. The moral of the story is don't bet on the Generals or a slot machine because there is no such thing as a sure thing.
This reminded me of a vacation that my wife and our friends, Vinnie and Kate,had taken about 7 years ago. We all decided to go to Loss Wages Nevada, that's a Las Vegas joke,for a 3 day vacation. It was really a nice trip, if you have never been there before. While we were there we gambled a little, very little, as all of us are not into giving our money away and we also traveled around to see some of the sites around Vegas. We all went to the Hoover Dam. That's some dam dam, a Hoover Dam joke. We rented a boat and cruised on Lake Mead, very cool. We took a day trip out to Bryce Canyon, very cool as well. And we also stayed right in Vegas and visited some of the great casino's.
Getting back to the sure thing.On the our last day we had to wait for a late flight that evening. So we had to give up our rooms early. The casino hotel , we were staying at, gave us one room so we could all take showers and prepare for the flight that evening. While we were all waiting for the shower's to be taken, we were sitting at the bar and watching this group of senior citizens putting hundred dollar bills into the slot machines and win double or triple their investment. We watched these people do this for about 1 hour and a half. Well the light bulb went off above all of our heads. Let's get a hundred bucks up and make some easy money. So we all scraped up the hundred bucks and fed it to one of these machines. I said , before we started, that I wanted to buy a new golf club with my part of the winnings. We all said what we wanted and then began pulling the handle. Well after about three minutes of great expectation we had come up penniless. Zip ,zilch, notto, nothing. I wonder now if this group of senior citizens were a set up by the casino's to get you to drop your last 100 bucks into these money eating machines. The moral of the story is don't bet on the Generals or a slot machine because there is no such thing as a sure thing.
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