Sock Croc,
Las Vegas Baptism Collection No.5
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Everyone has their personal magic tricks, these make all the difference in the whimsical world of Las Vegas. While hunkered down on an old poker machine with a tall glass of Modelo, taking rips from a Stiiizy watching the animations of " A Christmas Story" slot machine. I became puzzled and weirded out at what kind of personal psychological association bait strategy that went into the design and making of this machine. What kind of person were they targeting? I thought. Positioned the only one of it' kind, directly in the center walkway of several old run down poker machines. At this moment a lady caught my attention. She was sitting in the next section of slots rubbing her hands all over a dragon themed slot machine that was a huge LED screen that sat about 2 feet wide and 6 feet tall. Initially, I thought she was trying her best to do away with the white snake like dragon that would spill and swim all over her screen for about 25 seconds between every pull. It was the longest wait between every pull I've ever seen. But after watching her for a while I realized she was doing this to summon some sort of luck energy to the machine, pleasuring it down some in the hopes to satisfy the internal game head overseer. To set her up in a way to roll her a favorable outcome. Wanting to give herself a competitive edge. I don't blame her, but began to feel weirded out by the 3rd pull and by this time the dragon had more charges against this lady than how many slots were in this casino. After the third dragon dance the Machine Exploded with Light and Excitement. The great money counter wouldn't stop rolling up until it hit $15,000. She put and lit a cigarette in her mouth and filmed the whole thing. It was amazing, a real life moment of winning big, a realized dream, she was at one with Gods and the Energies. Her magic tricks proved powerful and her luck tremendous. A true American Dream realized, and a rare one too, a dream where the house pays you. With this she turned to the same machine and began playing again. And Again. I could no longer watch, the rule is to always move to the right once you win for slots. It had felt that whatever momentum she had going for her was vacuumed out into space. She might of moved machines after the two pulls that I saw, but I didn't see. Partially because the dragon hadn't finished his dance before I turned away, and partially because I didn't want to witness the bitter end to a sweet victory. Reminding myself to never forget the crucial lesson, of knowing when to move along.