I took yesterday off from work to spend some time with my family. We all decided to take a trip to Foxwoods for the day. People at Foxwoods always intrigue me. There are so many different kinds of people that spend their time there. The are the single men, usually young, that put on their best clothes and take their seat at the tables and spend the entire/day night hitting on the waitress or the dealer, there are the young woman, who are wearing as little clothes as possible just to get that extra dollar or two for gambling from those men at the tables, there are the couples that spend the day together usually the guy sitting at the slot, while the girl is hovering over telling him how to spend their money, of course there are families, the people with infants and small children will always mystify me, and there are the old men and woman that get dropped off of a bus for the ENTIRE day and either have millions to spend and take up at least 5 slot machines, or they have 2 dollars to spend, spend it all in the first 10 minutes and then stalk other people.
I was the lucky person to be the stalkee of at least 2 of these old woman. When we first arrived I went up to the both where you get a member card. I was telling the person across the desk that I lost my card. The old woman next to me starts to tell me how easy it is to lose cards in the slots, how she has done it a million times, how she has gotten a new card too, and how now she has one of those clips so that she can clip it to herself so she will not lose it.
Later on I was sitting a slot by myself. I was very happy with my slot machine selection. There was no one sitting next to me! Then I felt a presence behind me. There was this little old woman cheering me on! Now, I honestly don't need a cheerleader for something like pressing a button on a slot, if I was running a marathon maybe, but NOT a slot machine. So, I continue to lose my $20 while this woman is trying to coax three 7's to pop up on my machine. THEN, she touched me!! She was patting my shoulder as I was at least winning some points on the machine. I slightly moved forward thinking that this would help. A little after that her friend came over to her. I was relieved because I thought they were going to leave. BUT NO, her friend said, "Stay right here. Don't move. I will be back in a while". .......Shit....now the woman was sitting next to me telling me her life story. She was telling me about the history of slot machines, about her son in law....etc, etc.......
Now, talk about an awkward situation. How do you get out of this pickle? A lonely, old woman is talking my ear off and all I want to do is run away. Well..Eventually my money ran out. The woman continued to talk and talk. Finally she asked me why I didn't put more money in the slot...I explained to her that I didn't have any money and that I was going to look for my father. Well...great...my dad just sat next to me....damnit....he was my out!!! So I causally got up and began wondering around....I actually felt bad...but hello, I just could NOT deal.
Well...needless to say I did not win big that day and I also didn't meet any hot studs. But I did meet some really hot grandma's;)
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