What am I doing in this bank anyway? I should be doing all my banking online from the comfort of my study at home. But I hit a problem I cannot solve and I even brought my laptop to the bank to show the guys here what’s going on. I stand in the line at teller No 1, the head teller. And I stand and I stand and I think ruefully that I could be online gambling at home instead of tapping my heels here. There’s some problem up ahead so I move to teller number 2 and I stand and I stand. Finally it is just too much. I open my laptop, lean it on the polished brass rail and log into the Pearl Oyster, my favorite online casino. I click on Craps and turn the sound up to full volume. 

The shooter throws the dice and the crowd yells and even through the puny speakers of the laptop one can hear the noise of the dice rolling across the table, the dealer giving instructions and the crowd yelling. A few people turn around to see what’s going on and I keep my head down and keep rolling the dice. The line moves forward one and then two steps and I am getting closer to the teller. My online casino game is going well and I am, well not raking in the money as fast as the teller in front of me, but I am doing okay.

Then I hit a double six and despite myself and the stuffy atmosphere in the bank, I let out a wild “Yahoo!” Well, anyone playing in an online casino would do so at a win like that. A double six carries thirty to one odds for a reason – it hardly ever happens. Out of the corner of my eye, I see the teller reach for a button on the side of his cage and suddenly there are two huge goons on either side of me. They lift me off my feet and carry me and my laptop to the front door. But I came out a winner!

Posted on: October 9, 2007

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