On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 14:06:28 -0500, Wade Garrett
wrote:

On 2/18/21 10:09 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 2/18/2021 1:31 AM, wrote:


I have never been to Vegas and have no interest in going. We have been
all around the west tho.

You really should go sometime when you have an hour to kill.Â* Take a
ride out to the dam, then go down the strip and spend 15 minutes in a
casino.Â* Done.

Been there more times than I cared to be.Â* We went for some work
"seminars" for a few days.Â* Daughter lived there for a few years and I
still have two granddaughters living there.

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Years back, I was on a business trip from Atlanta to Ontario, California
with a change of planes in Las Vegas. I had a few minutes until boarding
time and four quarters in my pocket. I decided to deposit in the slot
machines right at the boarding gate.

Long story short- I hit the jackpot with the last coin. Sirens went off,
bells started ringing and quarters poured out of the machine.

I ended up filling a half-dozen 32 ounce drink cups. But I couldn't get
the change ladies roaming the concourse to accept the quarters and give
me bills. They said they were only allowed to change bills into
quarters, not vice-versa! So I ended up trucking them onto the plane
with me.

I was met right at the gate in Ontario and whisked immediately to lead a
meeting at my client's office. The six cups on the conference table made
for an amusing story and got everyone into a good frame of mind for the
not very good news I had to deliver to them...

We used to have slot machines in Md when I was growing up and we went
down to Waldorf drinking and playing the slots pretty often when I was
in high school. Only once did I ever do well. I hit 2 jackpots in one
night. Total $87.50. The real jackpots were paid by the bar owner,
not out of the machine. Dumping that little stack of coins was
literally chump change. We were rich for a while. ;-)