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Originally Posted by frazod
Reminds me of a guy I knew when I lived in Chicago about 20 years ago. I saw him drop his ENTIRE two-week paycheck into a video poker machine at the neighborhood bar. Left without a cent. Had an unemployed wife and two small children waiting at home for him.
I sat there and watched him do it - I must have told him to stop a dozen times. He just kept going. ****ing degenerate gamblers.  |
My dad worked in KC in a blue collar job when the riverboats first arrived, and he used to tell me a number of the guys he worked with became degenerate gamblers instantly. One of them ran up 5 figures on his credit card with only a butt mark on a casino chair to show for it, one of them had a card his wife didn't know about that was maxed out, some would go gamble on their lunch break and after work too... Sad
Aside from that
...his life savings is $2,600?