the day that the 17 year olds look forward to...

i recently (as everyone anticipated) made the trip up to visit the grand casino in mille lacs (sp?).

it's not what i expected, although i expected nothing really....i somewhat wished it was like how i saw them in the movies you know with oceans 11, people getting dressed up to roll big and spin the wheel. i didn't even see anyone win "chips". to the contrary most of the people who were there were pretty old and were wearing the clothes they bought at wallmart a few years back when they still weren't in style, i would also say that about 80% of the people there smoked. and yet what caught my eye were the bright colored machines with catchy names and promises of HUGE jackpots.

i thought i would try the first game, a bowling one, little did i know it had almost nothing to do with bowling i just kept hitting buttons, and apparently my parents were more confused than i was. i moved on to another fishing game after a while and noticed it was similar, aka i still didn't get it. then i moved over just a few seats to a game that was at least more interesting to look at. some kind of trailer park theme i made about two or three bets then i must have gone into a bonus round or something, and it began playing for me as i moved to the third and fourth party's, the machine was so loud that i couldn't hear what the lady a few chairs over was saying to me, so i just nodded at her, as the machine continued to congratulate me. by the end of the thing i had won $61.73 and that was the take home prize of the night. after that we just put some dollars in other ones, and i realized you had to look hard to find any machine different from the last. yet the wierdest part of all was that not a single person ever asked for my id, everyone makes such a big deal about it, but it was like going on the honors system. go figure