You must have seen one of those movies that show the world after Armageddon, after the nuclear battle between two super powers. Bleak landscape, burnt trees. Demolished homes and buildings with ragged remnants of populations living in fear. There is no food, except what can be looted from stores. There is no gas and everyone is on foot. Ghastly scenes of what can happen. Now sit watching CNN and see what’s happening. Half the world is submerged under floods. The other half are being micro- waved to death in heat waves. There is an earthquake in Peru, a hurricane in the Caribbean, mining collapses in Utah and China. The world’s stock exchanges are falling in like some wild game of stand ‘em up dominoes. Head for your computer and log into an online casino before you do anything else. Only a complete break from reality can save you. Inside the online casino all is as it was when you last logged out, except that 3 new slots games have been added and the graphics has been enhanced. It’s peaceful here and you understand exactly what’s going on. The changes are all for the better. The atmosphere is not restful but you feel confident because you recognize everything. Let’s try a little roulette, just to make sure the wheel still turns for me, you think. I’ll drop $20 chips on three numbers, just to prove to myself that everything’s alright. Number 7, my lucky number since my schooldays. Number 13 my unlucky number since I became superstitious and number 23, my birthday. I click on ‘spin’ sit back and wait for the devil to do his worst. But the devil is out there on the streets, doing his best to wreck the world. I have Lady Luck with me in the casino and when I hear the clickety-click of the little ivory ball that gets me all excited, I lean forward and wait breathlessly. Yes! I shout. My online casino world is still okay in all this madness. Number 23. “Honey, we’re eating out tonight!” Posted on: August 17, 2007
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