OK, NOW it's big enough that I'll play.
I wish my friend Jack could buy the ticket for me. When I lived in Virginia, we'd go out to lunch and stop by a 7-11 and he'd buy $10 worth of scratch-offs and I'd buy $10 worth. I kid you not, every single time he came out of that store with a profit. And I lost my $10. Some people are like that.
My Dad had a friend named Tom, now gone, who did not care one bit about money. He said he had been through hell in Nam and lived, and so nothing else mattered. The guy won at every game he played, only very rarely losing.
His girlfriend Lorene told the tale about them flying to Vegas. They got to the casino and had just walked in the lobby to check in and he pulled out $5 and stuck it in a machine. The thing went nuts – he had won the daily double! $50 grand. So, they comped him a room on the fourth floor above the entrance (I think this was at the Sands, IIRC). They asked how he wanted his cash and Tom said in $20s and $50s to the room, so they bring up these cheap cases with the cash in them. After the guys leave, he goes to the balcony over the entrance and starts throwing cash off it. It created a near riot below and security came up and took his cash away from him. But by the time they left, she said he had given away all of that $50G. Said they were checking out and he had just $500 in his wallet left over.
Then Tom spies a young woman sitting in the lobby, crying. He goes over to her and asks what's wrong. She tells him she came to Vegas with her fiancee and they got married, but she didn't know he had a gambling addiction and he has run through all their cash. She didn't know how she was going to get home. Who knows if it was true or not? But Tom hands her that last $500 and tells her, "This will get you home. Don't tell your husband you have this, or he will spend it."
So, Lorene says, "We got on that plane with nothing left of the cash he had won, PLUS we had to pay for all our expenses for the week except the room!"
The guy just didn't care about money, and I guess consequently, he won it at every turn. I have seen him go into a convenience store and buy 20 pull tabs and win on 19 of them. Amazing. Me? I gotta work and scrounge and save... LOL....
