brooklyn gal for a while

NYC is great, and so is leaving it!

Its a beautiful day and its my day off, what to do !?! why not hop a Greyhound to atlantic City! I dont know if you are in on the Bally's kickbacks, but the deal is, if you pay $30 roundtrip to Atlantic City* and get off the bus at Bally's you get a voucher for $20 at Bally's! Now I figured this would be some kind of thing where if you pay $100 for a gambling card, you get an additional $20 or something like that . . . but no! We turned in our little slip and the lady slid a fresh, crisp $20 under the grill to each of us. . . our eyes lit up . . . gambling money!
TS has a theory of planning to gamble however many years old you are . . . I liked that because my rule of thumb is to only bet $20.
I ended up winning a bit at quarter slots at the Wild West Casino, but then lost some at Trump**. TS was up at dollar slots but then lost at Roulette (I prefer roulette in tiny off shore casinos, where I can afford the pesos minimum bets).
Overall the day was fabulous and I'd bet it was the best day-trip I've had in awhile

*we had a choice we could either pay $30 roundtrip or $74 roundtrip, hmm, which to chose? sometimes Kiosks seem to be bizarrely wired.
** no, we did not see the old lady win 10million at nickle slots while we were there

posted by gordian knot @ Thursday, April 20, 2006