Release The Sanity

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Tonight I went to the casino with Skunky, his wife, his Mom, Mom's boyfriend and Dave.

Good time as usual. It's so nice to see Dave around. Dave hung with us when we were teens too. Many things drifted us over the years and now he's back. I always have fun when Dave is around and if you put Dave and Skunky together it's just ridiculous. I usually just sit back and let them entertain me all night with all the one liners they are pulling constantly.

So we're at the casino and Dave and I are in this conversation about ex's and the problems we encountered with them and he says, "Yeah, so my ex is like why in the hell do you need another TV. So I say to her 'what the hell does it matter, because it gives me a boner.' I mean who cares." Then I get a serious look from him like ~duh. This really made me laugh because I remember Dave's answer to everything when he was 16 was.... because it gives me a boner.

Lesson being... No matter how hard we try, there are just some things about us that make us who we are and those things will never change. lol Rock on, Dave.

So Skunky was completely out of control tonight. He starts out nice and slow like he's this mellow blackjack player. Betting 10-20 bucks here and there, suddenly for no reason BAM 100 bucks is out there EVERY time now. For no apparent reason that's not good enough anymore.... TABLE LIMIT. 200 bucks per hand...

He's not getting anywhere playing like this. He wins it all in two hands, then loses it all in two hands. Back and forth until finally the Indians take control and wipe him out. Dave at this point is doing some religious pow wow dance behind Skunky because he's part Indian. ( I just said that because it sounded better and I wanted to picture Dave doing a pow wow dance. - he is part Indian though. heh )

So, I think we are going to leave but no, the sweet wife gives Skunky another 100 bucks to go play roulette. He turns the 100 into 400 with a lot of work and calculated planning on his part and when his wife isn't looking he pushes 2 huge stacks of chips equalling 400 bucks on BLACK. ALL HIS MONEY, one shot...again, for no apparent reason. I'm thinking of the walk to the roulette table earlier with the wife and her saying, "yeah between me winning and Skunky losing we are still up $45.00." As we see this double stack of chips waiting to be scalped Dave, Mom's boyfriend and myself make this crazy eye contact together, we all get a smile that we are trying to hide so we each turn away in a different direction and start to walk away. And, it lands on RED. Wifey is just chatting away with mom's boyfriend, seems oblivious....Skunky immediately starts putting his wife's coat on for her and swoons her to the door. All three of us as we are walking out are saying, "Did she see that? Did she know?" Back at his house he says she knew and she probably did because I've never seen a woman watch her man bet so irratically and stay so calm. I was amazed. She says that's nothing he'll be betting 10 bucks all night and then she'll say "lets go" and BAM all his chips are out of pocket and are up for one hand. Like 300 bucks worth.

Lesson being...No matter how well we know someone don't assume you know everything! lol

As for me I only used $70.00 to play with. I was up $200.00 slowly losing, decided to quit when I was still ahead $45.00 I was happy. Wow, I have gotten lame and boring over the years. lol

So I learned a few things tonight, moreso in fun... and the last thing I learned was you can get anywhere in the world from Meade Street.

"If I'm on Meade Street, I turn which way?" lol

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