Do you list “Las Vegas” as a dependent on your taxes?
When your father gets sick do you try to get odds on his recovery?
Is gambling interfering with your work and your work is treating gambling addiction?
Do you try to recover gambling losses by gambling? And, when you get caught, do you try to cover it up by gambling?
Did you miss the last intervention your family held for you because you were at the race track?
Have you prioritized which of your children you might sell first?
Do you carry the deed to your house with you on your trips to Atlantic City?
Do bookies break your legs for not paying, in advance?
When you win big do you celebrate by gambling?
Did you buy a dog just so you could tell your spouse that it ate your paycheck?
Have you ever forged your spouse’s name for gambling money? Was it on a life insurance form?
Are you actively soliciting the local school-board to make poker a school team sport?
Are you too busy playing the slots to read this?
When your spouse tells you they’ll leave you if you don’t stop gambling and you reply, “I’ll TAKE that action”…
Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 
I’ve never gambled … well not with poker chips anyway … with life perhaps.
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It IS addictive. Most of us can walk away from it, though…
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Well that’s good news. I’ve never really seen the point myself. You can’t win
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I never gamble. Ever. Never even bought a lottery ticket. Might as well just feed your money to the dog directly… I can’t fathom the enjoyment.
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When I go to Las Vegas, I set aside a certain amount to lose and stop there. Mostly penny slots. The lights and music are hypnotic.
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I don’t gamble either. Kind of sad. Seen some friends do some stupid sh** and lose a lot more than money. But since we’re poking fun, I snortled at “When your spouse tells you they’ll leave you if you don’t stop gambling and you reply, “I’ll TAKE that action”…”
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It’s funny… I know one of nearly every kind of addict there is; but, I don’t know any gambling addicts. My brother used to bet on the Super Bowl early in the season (for the best odds). One year, he won, and a friend was going down there so he asked him to cash in his bet.
You can probably guess how that turned out…
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I only know one gambling addict. He gambled the deed to his house on the Tampa Bay/Eagles game in 2003. Lost his house and his wife. Granted that was the big “oh sh**” moment. Tough to watch that kind of mentality because after that fall, he spiraled.
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I qualify! But I quit and started blogging. Not as many thrills, but a lot cheaper. This is hysterical, once again you manage to hit my funny bone~
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Blogging does qualify as a cheap thrill, doesn’t it?
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LOL!
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I don’t have a gambling problem.
I have a problem gambling!
I never seem to win 🤔
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People who say that winning and losing are the same thing have never had to sell one of their kidneys.
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