Gambling

 

A winner

My best friend since we were in high school,  God love him, Jerry, loved to play cards, and playing black jack was one of  his favorites.  He also loved his boat which he kept docked at the summer home he and his wife Delores had just outside of Atlantic City..  Weekends he was always on his boat or in the casino.  Don't ask me why but I  never got seasick when I went sailing with him.  Anyway after the gambling issue won, he couldn't be happier.  And he lost so much money, when Rae and I went to Atlantic City to visit them, the casino sent a limo to pick us up at the Philadelphia airport, and transport us the 60 miles to Atlantic City.  Then they put us up at one of the hotels, in the best accommodations, and fed us the finest food.  All 'comped' as they called it.  Meaning, no cost to me.  Like the a junkets thay used to run from Miami to Vegas.  I always refused to go on them.  But this was Jerry.  Rae kept asking, "Are you sure we're  not paying for any of this?"

I did pay for my sub sandwiches (I had two) from the Whitehouse.  Subs do not taste the same in Miami because the water, used to make the bread, is different, so it can't  be baked to taste the same way it does back East.. And the water in Atlantic City is perfect for making sub (or Hero) rolls. If the water in Miami is soft then up there its hard and vice versa. And the Whitehouse in Atlantic City is greatly responsible for that reputation because they make the best steak and cheese or submarine sandwiches using bread baked at the Atlantic City Bakery..  If you ever go to Atlantic City, make sure you get one.  But the rest of my expenses were paid by the casino because Jerry was such a good customer (ahem, sucker) and lost so much money..

The Donald
(The wig is ready for flight.).

Anyway, about a year or so after that trip, during one of my regular calls to Jerry,  he tells me Trump Tower is going to open in a coupla weeks.  And then in a later call, he tells he went to the Trump Tower 'opening'  and they 'threw him out.'   "You're kidding?" I say.  He's laughing,  "Nope.  I was playing black jack and I was up $4,800.00.   This guy comes over and says, Get all of your chips and follow me to the cashier."  I cash in my chips and he escorts me to the front door and says, "We have your picture, don't come back.  You're not welcome here."

I couldn't stop laughing. but Jerry, he's like a kid, he is boasting.  I say "I think the Donald should get out of the gambling business.  He's in over his head."

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