Thursday, September 29, 2022

A Fine Kettle of Fish Laid Upon My Table

I really must pull Hick away from all of his side jobs, and get him to finish building my proposed handbasket factory. There's going to be a great need for handbaskets. I saw more evidence of society's decay on Sunday, when I stopped by Save A Lot.

What in the NOT-HEAVEN is this:

 
Looks like slot machines to me! Right there at the end of the dairy case! How is this allowed? Save A Lot is not a casino! It's not even floating, which I think is a condition of a casino in Missouri. It has to be on a body of water, or floating on pontoons in a man-made lagoon derived from a body of water. I don't care enough to look it up. I'm sure you have time to investigate on your own.

Anyhoo... what are these no-armed bandits doing in my grocery store? I mean, come on, we've now accepted that it's normal for grocery stores to give vaccines. But GAMBLING? I'm afraid to think of what might be next.

No, I did NOT try to play these games of chance. Silly readers! You know that Val could not perch her ample rumpus upon such a high stool!

Here's a closeup of the screen:

 
Somebody won $13.60. Or at least that's what they cashed out, I suppose. This does not seem legal. Or ethical. People who enter a casino KNOW what they're getting into. They know it's a place for gambling. Gambling. Not necessarily winning! They go in with the knowledge that they might lose money. People who enter a grocery store do NOT know that! Well. Other than the outrageous price of food these days. I sure hope nobody spends the food budget gambling on these contraptions.

There's gotta be a loophole, or something about these machines of which I am unaware. I'll keep you posted on what I find out. NO. I am NOT going to try them. I prefer my slots to be the real thing. In a casino.

10 comments:

  1. It so important to be near the eggs and coffee creamer in this time of History., You always make my life interesting.

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    1. Heh, heh! The eggs and coffee creamer add to the ambience. I don't go looking for these oddities! They just find me.

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  2. You have remarkable gambling skills. Could you tally your winnings.

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    1. Oddly enough, I tally my Future Pennyillionaire Fortune, but not my scratchers or casino bankrolls. On scratchers, I generally win about 40 percent back, not counting the big wins like $50-$500. Those are nice surprises. At the casino, I am happy to escape with half of what I take in. I don't know what my percentage is there, because I don't count up the big wins, I just stash them in the safe. They have the taxes held out automatically. I doubt that I'm much better than even money after all these years.

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  3. I thought that was illegal, too. The only place I have ever seen slots in the grocery was in Nevada.

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    1. Maybe it's not a real slot, but more of an arcade game. It sure looks like a slot machine to me!

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  4. IS THAT EVEN LEGAL? What do they pay out, money or gas station chicken?

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    1. Maybe this one pays in eggs and coffee creamer! One of Hick's buddies used to tell him he played slots at a convenience store in Backroads that has since closed. Said they had two machines. Then they took them out. Not sure if somebody told on them, or what happened. I never saw them, so I have no idea what's going on here!

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  5. Vaccines from grocery stores?? That doesn't sound right to me. Do they have qualified medical personnel on hand to administer them? What happens if someone has a violent immediate reaction? I'll get mine from a medical centre or pharmacy, thank you. Same with the slot machines. Casinos only. Or games rooms in big hotels, like they have here. Most big hotels have a gaming room and every pension payday a goodly number of the "blue-rinse" set whiles away the hours in them.

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    1. I know, right? Even though it's in the pharmacy section, I don't know if they have an actual RN, LPN, or just a pharmacy tech that jabs people. Funny how in the beginning, all that vax had to be refrigerated to a bazillion degrees below zero, and only the military had trucks with freezers to transport it, and now it's given in grocery stores and on parking lots! Don't get me started on this mystery...

      That sounds like my kind of hotel! I'd be throwing my ample rumpus around to knock those blue-hairs out of the way!

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