Giovanni Orfin
Professor Anthony
English 101
9 April 2014
The
Place Where I Want To Be
The
place where I want to be at and will always remember the most is the
casino. The casino I think is a great
place to be at only if you know how to control yourself and if you know when to
stop and when to keep going. The casino
is like a big temptation that is always manipulating you to keep spending more
and more of your money and that is when people develop gambling problems and
for those people the casino is definitely not a place where they want to be at
for the sake of themselves and their money.
But for people like me who can control themselves and always win at a
casino in this case the casino is the place to be.
The
reason why I remember how a casino looks like and how it feels is because
whenever I was little and I lived in California my grandma always used to take
me and my brother to the casino. My
grandma used to go all the time because she never really lost at the casino she
was always winning which always made her happy.
Even though my brother and I couldn’t really do anything at the casino
because we weren’t old enough I enjoyed being there because I just loved
listening to the sounds that all of the slot machines were making and the sound
of the coins dropping out of the machine.
I also liked all of the changing lights that the slot machines made and
that is why I liked the casino so much.
The
reason why my grandma liked going to the casino was be she was always going
with her mom when she was younger so I guess the casino kind of grew on my grandma
as well as me. When my grandma was at
the casino with her mom she always watched her win at every slot machine and
that is why my grandma started playing slot machines with her. My grandma would win and she always got lucky
on all of the machines and usually never lost.
My grandma always told me that her mom used to stay at the casinos until
8 in the morning and would fall asleep in the chair but her hand kept on
pushing the button. She told me that one
day that she was pushing the button while she was asleep she hit the jackpot
and didn’t even know it because she was asleep and I don’t really remember what
happened with the jackpot because I don’t remember what my grandma told me
after that.
I
have always wanted to go to the casino for years but I was never old enough and
still had to wait to get older. Once I
was 18 I thought to myself “only 3 more years and then I can go to the casino!”
and that was when my mom told me “there is a casino called downstream that lets
18 year olds in” I was just stunned after hearing that. The place was pretty far away and my parents
couldn’t drive me down there nor could I but when I was in MSU I was hanging
out with the fraternities and they started talking about taking a trip down to
downstream. They said that all of the
fraternities were going and they were taking new people with them so I joined
them and was headed to downstream.
When
we go to the casino the outside looked awesome and the building was very big. As I stepped inside the casino it just
brought back memories because for the first time in like 10 years it was the
first time that I had seen slot machines!
I also heard every single sound that the machines were making and all
the lights they were giving off. I felt
the machines and some of them felt really old and some felt new and I was just
feeling so good being in a casino again and it felt even better that I knew I
was going to get to play them. The only
thing that I didn’t like about the casino was all of the smoke! The smoke was just making my throat hurt,
drying up my contacts, making my nose sting, and made me dizzy but other than that
it was great!
I
kept on looking around the place and it just looked beautiful, the building,
the designs, the architecture, and everything looked good. I noticed that there were some pretty
interesting restaurants in the casino and I could smell some of the food even
with all the smoke in the place. There
were a lot of old people in the casino that looked like they had been there for
a while, some of them had happy faces and some of them had really serious
faces. I was looking forward to playing
my first slot machine!
I went over to a random slot machine
and I had no idea how to play it so I just started pushing buttons and I pushed
the button around 3 times and I realized that I was playing on the worst slot
machine for me. The slot machine I was
playing made me bet $15 each time! I had
lost $45 in like 10 seconds so I only had 5 dollars left which sucked. I said all well and just went to the cheapest
slot machine, which were the penny slots and just started playing on that. Even though I wasn’t winning anything I was
still having loads of fun just sitting there and watching the reels spin and
watching the lights flash.
The
penny slots are pretty fun to play on because you don’t have to worry about
losing a lot of money and I knew not to expect to win a lot of money from a penny
slot machine. In the first place I
didn’t even want to win money at the casino because I just didn’t care at the
time all I cared about was just being at the casino to have a good experience
and to have a good time. Fun, that is
what I got out of the casino at the end of the day even though I lost my money.
About
a month later I asked my family to go to the casino with me and they agreed to
go so we all got on the casino bus that drove us from Springfield to Downstream. When we got there I went to the most
appealing slot machine that I saw and I clicked the button a few times and I
had won $300 and at the end of the day I was happy. I kept on going to the casino in the future
and the 3rd time I won $600 and then the 4rth time I won $180. Even though I loved the casino I now loved it
even more because I kept on wining a lot of money every time I went which made me
so happy and that is why I like being at the casino.
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