It’s working and I have high hopes that it will improve. Old man Green on the fourteenth floor drove a rusty Ford. It was held together with bits of wire and string. Yesterday, after I accosted him in the lobby and led him to the online gambling terminal, logged in for him and held his shaky hand and even helped him click the mouse, he won one of those progressive jackpots. Today the Ford was replaced by a shiny fire-engine red Ferrari. Mrs. Smith, the gorgeous young widow on the ninth floor played a mean game of craps in an online casino and won enough to trade in her old heap for a new sports car. She looks great in it! And that fancy playboy in the penthouse made a killing at blackjack and exchanged his motorbike for a convertible. I’m slowly upgrading the cars in the parking basement.

Not that they all go for cars. Two tenants came to thank me for putting in the computer and told me that they are redoing their kitchens and there’s not much I can do except ask to be invited to dinner when the renovations are complete. But the idea of online gambling has taken hold. Seventeen out of a hundred and twenty residents have asked me to purchase and install computers for them so that they can do their online gambling in their own apartments instead of in the public lobby and twelve residents have signed maintenance contracts with me to look after their computers and keep them online. My online gambling scheme is showing plenty of unexpected bonuses and I have developed a whole new business.

Today I visited twelve large apartment buildings in our street. At each one I met with the house committee and explained the advantages of installing online gambling terminals in their lobbies. I came away with orders from every building and three asked for at least two terminals in their lobbies. Business is looking up!

Posted on: June 11, 2007

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