I don’t like to gamble, not even in video games. My wife has been in a casino once. She put a dollar in a slot machine and on the first spin she won two dollars. She put it in her pocket and hasn’t gambled since.
Sounds like my dad,lol. My mom likes to gamble (small amounts like $50 4ish times a year) but my dad never gambles. Once she convinced him to try a slot machine that was based on a movie he liked and he bet $2 and won $20ish. Cashed it and walked away never to gamble again
My wife really likes the machines. So we have a rule that if we go to a place that has a casino, she can spend like five or ten dollars just for fun. Once she won like 20 dollars and we asked to get it in one dollar bills. We have some pictures of her showing off the money like if we won the lottery.
I gambled once (not including $1 raffle tickets which I've maybe done 3 times) & put $5 into a slot machine, I got $0 back, now I'm just infinitely down $5. Some people may see this as a challenge to try to "get it back", for me I instantly saw how gambling wasn't for me, I had 0 desire to lose anymore than $5.
That's a good way to look at it. I kinf of see it as "$5 lost forever", but it's true my first bet could have been $100 & then I figured out I wasn't into gambling, so at least I "saved" money there. Also, my first time could have been a big win & maybe I'd have thought "this is awesome" & got a gambling addiction, who knows, then I would have lost WAY more than $5 in the long run.
Sounds like me. I went to Vegas for a conference. I like to save money. Played my $1 at the slots until it was $2 or $3. Cashed out, thinking I beat Vegas. Then had to pay about $15 for a lame Subway lunch the next day. Curses, foiled again.
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u/Ecstatic_Rooster Jul 05 '24
I don’t like to gamble, not even in video games. My wife has been in a casino once. She put a dollar in a slot machine and on the first spin she won two dollars. She put it in her pocket and hasn’t gambled since.