Casinoland

So I know this post is suppose to be about Top Chef and food, however, I only have access to 1 tv which was taken over by my uncle and the Tour de France... I will hopefully get to catch up on Top Chef later tonight if they are rerunning it or sometime soon. Vacation rearranges everything... especially when you have 20 people in a house made for about 8 people.

Anyway, I just got back from my first ever trip to the casino!!! It was sorta like I expected, but I honestly thought I would like it more. I'm glad I didn't like it overall. I just felt bad the whole time when I thought about what was going on. All the money that was being spent all around me, the money being lost. How there are people starving in Africa and even right here in the US and how the money could help good causes instead of going into Donald Trump's pocket. I only played for about a half hour and didn't win - although I didn't lose much. It was just weird - all the flashing lights and complicated slot machines that I have no idea how old people figure out. I mean maybe if I sat there and read it all (my dad was there just explaining it to my boyfriend and I). It's funny how it's mostly just old people and they are probably the least likely to know what the hell is going on. They just push the button and wa la there goes the money - you just put it in once and then that's it - just push a button - so efficient for Paris Hilton and Don Trumpy. Crazyness really. I can see how people get all irrational. It's easy to lose track of what's going on. It's hard to even explain the whole experience - I don't think I have even fully comprehended my reaction to it.

I do know that I don't think I could never own a casino unless I gave all the money to charity that I made because it seems like such an immoral, strange experience. Just the whole Atlantic City scene - the places around the casinos that advertise - "we buy gold" for example. I know that people who lose the money are the ones to blame in one sense, but really the way it's all set up a part of me thinks there is more to it - like there are some people who have passed the realm of rationality. Oh well...


Lesson #15: Be careful and smart at the casino - read and if you don't understand what's going on that should tell you something - don't use any more of your money. People watch instead.