More Star Wars Please

you can already file this away in the "guess you had to be there category", but here goes anyway.

we were in vegas last weekend on business. john and i spent a little time at the blackjack tables. now, we're not big gamblers but we do enjoy playing blackjack together, especially if john sits at my right and lovingly coaches me when i attempt to double down as the dealer holds a face card.

that's, evidently, a big no no.

we ALWAYS net a profit and we ALWAYS walk away when we're ahead.

the casinos hate that, by the way.

anyway, we spent some time at the "party pit" blackjack table in Bally's Casino. you get really cool plastic jewelry when you hit a blackjack. now i'm not big on plastic jewelry but last weekend i was rather enjoying my mardi gras beads.

and our table got on a run.

we played for hours, collecting plastic jewelry and laughing so loud the dealers were fighting to get back to our table as a happy table is a tipping table.

they were doing well too.

as i said, though, john and i always know when it's time to cash out.

so cash out time rolled around and we collected our stack of chips and headed over to the Cashier's Cage.

we waited in line as very serious tellers exchanged very serious money for chips and very serious chips for money.

when it was our turn, john sauntered up to the cashier and proceeded to request 2 TICKETS TO STAR WARS ... NO, MAKE THAT THE STAR WARS TRILOGY.

and the cashier didn't think it was funny. at all.

and the more the cashier didn't think it was funny, the funnier it got.

and i wet my pants right there in bally's.

the end.