My wife and I go to a casino maybe once per year. I can play the slots for an hour and I'm ready to leave. I've never spent more than a hundred dollar bill and never won anything big. What gets me are the people who literally are there for 12-16 hours straight playing the machines. Not to judge people by appearance, but most of them don't look like they need to be gambling. I heard a social psychologist once say that if you want to see the first step to homelessness, look no further than the front steps to a casino. I believe it. I have a couple of coworkers who have gambling issues. One thing I've noticed is that gambling addicts also become liars. One will always come to work talking about how much she won over the weekend. $5000 one weekend, $12,000 another, $8000 another, and she tells these stories every week. If you ask what she spent to win that much she'll say "I just put in a ten dollar bill and two spins later it hit." About two years ago I was talking to her husband who candidly told me he would have retired three years ago but can't because he can't keep his wife out of the casino and it's killing them. that's when you realize the dark truth. Slot machine addicts will never tell you how that money they "won" was after plugging many times more into those machines over weeks, months, and years. Like I always tell people, those huge ever growing casinos with all the fancy massive video board signs outside and top notch interior designs were not built with winners money.
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Originally Posted by BigFishSteve
