I wasn’t sick. All I needed the doctor for was to get a clean bill of health for the gym. The gym insists that the medical certificate is renewed once a year and I need the doctor to put his stamp of approval on it. For this I have to book an appointment like any other sick patient. All the other people in the waiting room were apparently sick or needed the doctor. Without the receptionist to direct the traffic and the order of appointments, the room was chaos, with coughing and sneezing old people milling about. I found a seat in a far corner and logged into the Silver Spanner, the online casino where I have a credit balance in my account.

I played blackjack and was lucky almost immediately. I hit a blackjack on the second hand and again on the fourth. I was dealt a pair of aces on the sixth hand and split, picking up another blackjack on one hand and a ten on the other. It seemed that I couldn’t go wrong. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed the door to the consulting room opening from time to time, but I was having too much fun to leave the online casino at that moment. I played on, my pile of credits steadily rising.

Then I decided that if I was really on a roll I may as well push my luck and see if it stayed. I switched to roulette. I played with $100 chips, digging into the pile of credits I had built up. It was a first timer, a hole in one, the perfect fluke. The first spin fell into my number giving me $3,500. I let the whole lot ride and gave the wheel another spin. I won again. I was trying to do the math, 35 time $3,500 when the doctor strode across the room towards me and asked what I wanted to see him about. Was I supposed to offer him a share of my winnings?

Posted on: December 3, 2007

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