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There I was, cruising leisurely into AC town on Hwy30, Robin Trower's "Day of the eagle" was blasting away through the speakers and despite a bit of traffic I was in a great mood. The herd of inbound gamblers was filing in, ready for some action at the casinos...

All was bliss, all was peaceful and traffic was flowing normally. Then I saw it in the rear view mirror, a car weaving in and out of traffic to gain... a car length or two? He was weaving in and out at the highest speed he could go, cutting people off, cutting in and doing whatever he had to do basically. He blew past me and continued to weave in and out... then it happened. He sideswiped another vehicle and a spin caused a multi-car accident right before my eyes. I braked down quickly and avoided becoming part of the "festivities". As I went around this mess on the shoulder, I was thinking, "Guess that clown lost HIS first gamble of the day!"

I finally get to the casino and am pulling into the parking garage toward the little booth that bottles up the incoming traffic. A carload of New "Yawkers" careens in, speeding up to get ahead of me, cutting me off leaving me to think, "My gosh are they giving away free donuts today or something?!?"

At least the casino visit was enjoyable enough, I ground out a nice stack'o'chips and Flash loaned me Wong's book "Wong on Dice" to read and a pair of dice to diddle with at home. I was getting back out onto Hwy30 toward home and stopped at the WaWa convenience store, figuring I would get a tasty beverage on a pitstop before resuming this "makeshift Indy 500". I stroll up to the counter and reach into my pocket for a few loose bills and felt the dice Flash had given me to practice with. Just for fun and on a snapjudgement of doing something humorous (to me at least), I pulled out the dice, rolled them around in my hand at the counter while saying to the clerk, "This is Atlantic City so what the heck, instead of paying in the regular manner I'll ROLL for this iced tea!" and proceeded to roll the dice onto the counter. This got a laugh out of the clerk but ultimately I had to just pay cash like everyone else.

During the drive home I wondered if that guy that was in the big hurry ever got his chance to gamble away his first dollar on his SECOND gamble of the day...
 
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