The Fidgety Spinner

As you know, Val leaves no weirdo unfound. She seeks them out, subconsciously following the pull of her weirdo magnet. Tuesday was no exception. Hick decreed that we would travel to our new favorite casino, so he could visit his new favorite pawn shop. He could have gone by himself, but you know how his ears would grow closed, not hearing Val's constant complaints of his sweaving.

Hick and I both earned our $10 food credit, and had a delicious, although delayed, lunch at 2:00. That casino was simply crawling with old people, who all lined up for their free food at 12:45. I KNOW! You'd think I could outsmart old people by choosing a time off the hour and the half-hour. But no! It's almost as if Val and the old people are on the same wavelength!

Anyhoo...Hick left to do his pawn-purchasing, while I set about losing my money. Actually, I had a nice win right after we rescheduled lunch, and Hick was on his way out.

I was only a couple spins in, playing Wonder 4 Boost, all four screens on Wild Americoin.

Here's the screen when my bonus hit, with the final bonus win already put over on the CREDIT section. I was too slow to get the final bonus total picture.

This was a regular bonus, one screen, but it gave me the BOOST feature, to four screens, as soon as it started.

No pictures of lunch, because we got the same foods as usual. The pulled pork with tater tots for me, and the mushroom and swiss burger with fries for Hick. We also had lemon meringue pie, because it looked so delicious (and was). Sadly, I didn't get called away from lunch this time as a drawing winner!

Hick said we could stay another 45 minutes after lunch. I immediately went to cash out the ticket of winnings I'd compiled. I had a twenty in my pocket, left from my casino bankroll, and my $30 cash comp that I was planning to save for scratchers. There was one game I wanted to play, Fortune Coin. On my way there, I passed the row of four Wonder 4 Boost slots again.

Huh. It wouldn't hurt to play a twenty in the slot on the left end. I'd won my money on the slot on the right end. But something called me to this one. I put in my money, and that slot couldn't stop paying me! Right off the bat, I got a bonus, which paid me $135. I decided to play it down to $100, and cash out an even number, but it wouldn't let me! I hit ANOTHER bonus, this time with a blue $, the SUPER FREE games, meaning 4 screens, and then it retriggered. So I had 14 games, all 4 screens.

It was quite exciting. The lady sitting beside me, having a blast with her own $65 bonus, seemed a bit envious of my good fortune. That bonus paid me $220.45. Imagine if it had been anything other than the minimum bet of $2.40 a spin, which is .60 per game. I cashed out my winnings in a hot Backroads minute, put that ticket in my purse, and headed over to Fortune Coin, to spend my $30 comp cash on my final slot. No way was I playing with my winning ticket, or cashing it out before leaving.

WEIRDO ALERT!

The Fortune Coin that I wanted to play was taken. So I went to the other side, where there are two more. I had to make my way past a dude spinning on his stool. Not all the way around, but back and forth. His legs like a horizontal pendulum. At first I thought he was finishing out his money, and getting ready to leave.

NO!

The Fidgety Spinner was all hyped up on something. Perhaps just winning, though I'm thinking more along the lines of Red Bull, or an illegal substance. BACK and FORTH, BACK and FORTH. He had bent his legs back, so he could spin to the left, then past the slot and back to the right, where I sat. About a 180-degree spin each time. OVER and OVER. All the while, SLAPPING the SPIN button. He wasn't a pounder like the weirdo in Oklahoma. Just a slapper. Which is annoying enough.

Fidgety Spinner acted like he was in a slot tournament, determined to get as many spins as possible in a limited time period. Whatever he was doing seemed to be working. But more likely, he had just hit that slot at a time when it was in a paying cycle of the Random Number Generator. He got bonus after bonus. I don't know what he started with, but the credit on his machine was $300-something. Although he WAS betting $3.00 a spin.

My Fortune Coin fiddled around a bit, then ate my money. Not a problem! It was time to go, and I still had my second big ticket from Wild Americoin to cash out! Good thing we stayed longer after lunch!

I enjoy having a profitable day at the casino, but I enjoy even more having an extra-profitable day at the casino. Although I enjoy it a little less when my weirdo magnet is strong.