May 19, 2013

• Me And The Boys

  Yesterday was the running of the Preakness, which is the second leg in horse racing’s triple crown. Being that I recently won big betting on the Kentucky Derby, three friends of mine and me decided to go to the OTB to place our bets. First though we met up at my friend J.T.’s house for a kick ass lunch of smoked chicken and some delicious sides with s’mores ice cream for dessert. Holy shit was that good! Don’t know if you are a s’mores person but man if you are then you NEED to try it.

  We got to the OTB about 4:30 and quickly placed our bets. While I didn’t win, my buddy Dave did in classic fashion. See, he made about 10 bets on the race and accidentally made the same bet twice. Well that mistake wound up getting him over $600! To top it off, he won another $400+ on the next race. The rest of us were not so lucky at the OTB. In fact, combined the rest of us probably lost over $200. But being that Dave had just won a ton of money and we were only about 10 minutes from the casino, we decided to head there.

  For some reason, our tradition when we park in a parking garage is to park on the top level and this time was no different. We always go to the top and look out at the view. We were four stories up and we looked over the edge and did what any 12 year old would do: we spit over the edge. Of course the problem here is that we aren’t 12; we were actually four guys in our mid to late 30s spitting from four stories up aiming for a fucking manhole. Then again, Dave offered us $50 to anybody who could hit the damn thing. None of us came close. So I had the brilliant idea of instead of using spit, we should toss coins down to try to land on the manhole. Again, to no avail, but when I think about it, it is probably amazing that we didn’t get kicked out right there. After all, they do have security cameras fucking everywhere at a casino.

  Once inside we started to gamble when we came across a $100 slot machine in the high limit area. I started to talk the others into each putting in $25 for a hundred dollar spin. While I had J.T. on board with me, I could not convince Don and Dave to do it as well. So we decided on pooling our money on a $5 machine. We stood there in front of the machine going over a few ground rules. I should mention at this point that J.T. had won a significant amount of money at the casino. And I had won on the Derby two weeks ago and of course, Dave had won at the OTB. Don won big at the casino back in January but we figured he was due again, so we had him sit and spin. And that was probably the quickest $100 we had ever blown.

  The rest of the night was a pretty good time. Don wound up coming back and not only won back all that he had lost but managed to profit a decent sum as well, leaving me as the only loser for the day. Didn’t matter to me though. After all, I’m still up from two weeks ago and I had a great time hanging out all night

   

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