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A Harvest Adventure Story BY RICHARD “REGGIE” GUMMER
SOME PEOPLE HAVE COMPULSIONS TO GAMBLE, SOME TO AMASS FORTUNES AND OTHER’S, WELL THEY JUST LIKE TO WRITE STORIES. YEAH, THAT WOULD BE ME. I HAVE ALWAYS LIKED TO WRITE, NEVER WAS VERY GOOD AT IT; BUT I HAVE DONE IT OVER THE YEARS JUST THE SAME.
IF ANY OF YOU WANT ANY INSIDE INFORMATION ON ANY CASINO THAT I’VE BEEN TO, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO TELL YOU WHAT I KNOW.
REGGIE
WHILE TRAVELING TO NORTHERN MINNESOTA WE STAYED OVERNIGHT IN WATERLOO, IA. WE HAD ARRIVED IN WATERLOO LATE, SO WE DID NOT HAVE TIME TO RUN TO THE CASINO. YOU KNOW THE FEELING WHEN YOU ARE TRAVELING A 1000 MILES A DAY. (AT LEAST IT SEEMED LIKE A THOUSAND) WE WERE TOTALLY FRIED AND READY TO CRAWL INTO ANY BED THAT THE TOWN WE WERE IN OFFERED. SO THAT IS WHAT WE DID. WE PLANNED ON GETTING UP EARLY ANYWAY.
THE MOTEL WE STAYED AT OFFERED A BREAKFAST, SO WE GOT UP WERE ON THE ROAD TO THE ISLE CASINO BY 8 AM. USING OUR TRUSTY LADY IN THE GPS WE ONLY MISSED TWO TURNS AND WE WERE THERE BEFORE 9 AM.
THE FEELING OF WALKING INTO A CASINO AT 9 AM IS AN EERIE FEELING, THERE WERE VERY FEW PEOPLE IN THERE, THE PARKING LOT WAS EMPTY. HOWEVER, AFTER THE NOT SO CALMING RIDE FROM THE MOTEL TO THE CASINO; I WAS READY FOR MY 2ND OR WAS MY 3RD CUP OF COFFEE. AND THEY HAD A BIG COFFEE URN, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CASINO, FOR EASY ACCESS.
WE HAD MADE SO MANY CONCESSIONS GETTING TO THIS CASINO WE FELT COMPELLED TO SPEND SOME TIME AT LEAST A HALF AN HOUR. NANCY WAS DELIGHTED ABOUT ONE THING, SHE HAD HER CHOICE OF MACHINES TO PLAY. I WAS HAPPY TO FIND OUT THAT I COULD BUY THE CHIPS FROM THE CAGE, AND WHAT I NEEDED WAS NOT MUCH.
WE LOOKED AROUND, THERE WASN’T MUCH TO SEE. SO WE GOT READY TO LEAVE IN OUR SCHEDULED HALF AN HOUR. AT THIS TIME THE RIVER WAS CRESTING GETTING VERY CLOSE TO FLOOD STAGE; AND WE DID NOT WANT TO TARRY VERY MUCH IN CASE, THEY STARTED CLOSING ROADS AND/OR BRIDGES.
I DID GET ENOUGH CHIPS FROM THIS EMPTY CASINO…REGGIE
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