Stopped at the Bicycle or should I say, Parkwest Bicycle, yesterday to try for a $20 chip and some of those $5 Free Play and Lucky Chips. Got the $20 without a problem from the Fill Cashier in the front. As I was walking toward the ramp to the main cage in the rear of that room, I saw . . . a chest of drawers rolling across the floor by itself, whistling "Hoo hoo hoo hoo, hoo-hoo hoo-hoo." A robot! I asked a nearby dealer, "Does it play cards with you?" And she grinned and said no. Just WHAT it does remains a mystery. Anyway, the main cage cashier told me that those $5 promo chips for baccarat are only available on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays, from 3 PM to 11 PM. And he had no idea of what the Navy blue $5 "The Bicycle Club" chip might have been. He insisted all blue chips were $1 and $5 chips were yellow and offered to sell me one of each, but I said I already had those.

Making my exit from the casino, rolling my walker down the ramp, I came face-to-face (if such can be an accurate expression) with The Robot who was whistling and trying to make his (her???) way to the rear of the casino. Robot appeared to be utterly confused about a man with a walker, for he stopped directly in front of me, blocking my path and "looking" at me carefully with the camera on his top side while continuing to whistle his odd song. What else could I say? "Silence! You cantankerous clattering clod!" Robot stared and finally moved out of my way, letting me descend.

Two dealers at the entrance of the high-limit room off the ramp were convulsed in laughter. "He's trying to take our jobs away!" squealed the lady. "And last week he got stuck on the ramp, he couldn't move and nobody knew what to do. It took 4 people to get him moving again," added the man. I noted (to myself) that these two people didn't seem to be working very hard anyway, and one whistling loafer probably was a cost-savings improvement to two, but I held my tongue and made my way out of the casino. My first encounter with a robot . . .

Thanks, Mr. Park, for bringing me into the 21st Century or whatever Century it is down there. Hoo hoo hoo hooo, hoo-hoo hoo-hoo!