I think you've about said it all. . . . . execpt mine "only" dropped 25%. . .so far. . .
Jean H--
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From: Jigger Woodruff <bayfieldkent@yahoo.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 1:30:35 PM
Subject: [vpFREE] The thrill is gone........
Well, not completely. But it is getting harder and harder to get excited about taking several trips a year to LV as the cost of flying continues to rise and games and paytables are eliminated/changed.
Maybe it's the angst of seeing my retirement account drop close to 50% in the last year with the realization that I'm gonna have to work several more years than I had planned.
I'm not completely done, but whole experience is getting harder to enjoy. I'll pick and choose offers and go for a vacation a few times a year, but nothing like in the past. I will not "work" so hard at maintaining a high daily average in a few casinos just to keep offers coming. If they come, fine. If not I'll stay home.
Part of this is due to the casino attitudes toward the comiing Depression - cutting games and comps. It seems to me you should be courting good solid players, not nickel and dimeing them at every chance. If I want to feel like that I'll go to Disney World!
As this economic mess deepens it will be interesting to see what happens. Talk about betting on the come - the big corporations have built like there was no tomorrow, and now they are beginning to feel the effects of their drunken, tourist driven orgy.
Am I alone here? There are 8000 people in this group - a good number of which are tourists like me. Are you feeling anything like me?
Sigh.....
Jigger
"On some days, my head is filled with such wild and original thoughts
that I can barely utter a word. On other days, the liquor store is
closed."
"Sex is like air. It's not important unless you aren't getting any."
"No one ever says "It's only a game,"
when their team is winning."
"Ever notice that people who spend money on beer,
cigarettes, and video poker are always complaining
about being broke and not feeling well?"
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