For many years, I have known that another Elliott Shapiro lives in Las
Vegas.
Often, when I am asking for a comp, or there might be some other
business at a slot booth, I am asked for my social or birth date,
because of the duplication of names.
Yesterday, while playing at Boulder Station, a gentleman sat down and
I noticed that his first name was Elliott (from his slot card). I
commented that we shared the same first name and then I asked for his
last name. Shapiro, he said and now after many years, we met.
We have absolutely nothing else in common, but even in a city of over
a million, strange coincidences can and do happen.
