Good evening,
Went to a meeting tonight. Heard two more people coming into the fellowship, one newcomer, and one "returnee". Both were the latest victims of the "its not gambling" poker craze. As with myself, and many in the gamblers anonymous meetings, they had won some money, but in the end lost much more back, as well as things far beyond money.
This sort of leads me into my other interesting site of my day. I have what some would consider a "weird" hobby. I enjoy monitoring public safety radio. You know what I am talking about...Police, Fire, Medics etc... I never GO to anything I hear, but I do like knowing what is going on around me as well as it brings me back to some of my past life, before gambling forced me to give up that life forever unfortunately. I miss being in that line of work a lot.
Anyway, twice today I heard things that reminded me of my problem gambling. First, earlier in the afternoon I heard a "medical aid" call get dispatched to the local casino. As the police got there first, I heard the officers on the "chit-chat" channel saying it was no big deal, just someone had lost too much money and passed out. When I heard this I remembered all those times I felt dizzy and almost passed out myself not having a clue what I was going to do to solve the problems I created "this time".
Then, just a little while ago as I am watching the Padres in a wild one, a local supermarket gets robbed by 2 guys with guns. Nothing too unusual about that unfortunately. But again as the officers are looking for the car they think the crooks left in, they said "notify the sheriff for the Indian reservations as they are probably on the way to the casinos with the money". Based on where the robbery took place, and the race of the suspects, they had some idea what "crew" was involved, hence the possibility they went gambling with the proceeds.
Today is not the first time I have heard this type of thing, but to hear two completely different spectrums of the scenario in the same day was interesting.
I m just glad I did not place a bet today and went to a meeting to help me remember why I didn't.
John
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