I am playing a progressive slot machine thinking that if I have to sit here through the night I may as well go home with some really big money for my trouble. I am playing in the Golden Goose online casino and according to their ads, the progressive jackpot is standing at over 2 million dollars at this moment. The speed at which the jackpot is rising means that it must be connected up to every other progressive slot machine in the US. I am playing “max coins” all the time, remembering that this is the only way to win the progressive jackpot. It would be a bad day to win the jackpot on one coin and find that you won $200 instead of 2 million if you had played all five coins! A cop walks up to me and looks at the laptop to see what I am doing. Am I the bad guy who it trying to set off a bomb using my laptop? I push the “play” button and see two cherries where I should see five in a row. I had about a thousand dollars in my credit account when I logged in to the online casino about half an hour ago and at the rate I am playing, 5 dollars per try, my money won’t see me through the night. But at least I’m passing the time. Most of the other people are pacing up and down the driveway. One guy left the keys in his car and said he was walking home. I hit “max coins” again and this time I get 4 lemons in arrow and I hear the clanking of virtual coins as they fall into the virtual trough. My credits go up and I feel a little better. There’s a flurry of excitement up ahead I put the laptop down and get out of the car to see what’s going on. Two guys are holding up a deck of cards and yelling down the line if anyone is interested in playing Texas Hold’em Poker while they wait. Things are getting pretty desperate. It’s two hours now. I hit the “max coins” button again. Posted on: January 8, 2010
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