To Chase is Dangerous.
At 9.30 this morning I had an appointment at my asthma clinic to evaluate my inhalers. no great problem lovely Asian nurse really understanding.
I explained that I was having, problems some night breathing, and could feel a build up of mucus.
She said a funny thing considering that my doctor had been filling me with a basket full of pills for 15 years.
It was is she knew something that no one else did or if they did they didnt want to tell me because there was no money in it.for them.
All you nead is WATER.
If you think about it, water is the cheapest thing we have on the planet and is something we cant do without and yet most of us hate to drink, it, and it is almost FREE.
As I drove back home my mind was spinning not about my health but about a question that a punter asked me the other night, and it was why do bookmakers refuse bets,?
And what is the most dangerous problem for a gambler.?
Straigtht away the word CHASE came into my mind, the biggest danger for any punter is to chase his loses.
Whist debating that I should write tonight about the topic, a car on my outside, came across with no warning and shot straight up a side road. all I had chance to do was flash my light and blast my horn.
As he moved over in responce to my rage he gave my a two finger sallute, as if to say.
Ok so I almost killed you but so what fuck you.
Although I had celebrated my 73rd Birhday only the day before i was fuming and shot up the side road after him.
At the top of the road by a junction, I eye balled him with a scowell.
At that moment a cold realisation came over me, what I had done was stupid.
The door to the car opened and out came the driver, perhaps 6. ft tall although for a moment he looked 8ft.
He was smirking and one look into his eyes, I could see he was still overcoming a cracking night he had had the night before,
In a second I had to evaluate what I ment my Cracking. was it a great night drinking that he had still not fully recovered from
Was if a Crac night with a load of fellow Irishman,
Or was the Crack, something more sinister, one look in his eyes, was enough for me to wish I was still with my Asian nurse blowing in here little machine.
I was in trouble. all right my attempt at a road rage was about to create a dangerous precedent.
As I stood there awaiting his move, in instinct, I began to use deaf and dumb sign language, that I hadnt used for 30 years. at that time it was to stop some time share operator from collaring me. all I had to hope was the he wasnt Deaf and Dumb.
Well at least Deaf as I already knew he was Dumb.
I was doing mouth and hand signs not in an agressive manour but more of an oppology.
He looked at me began to laugh got back in his car and drove away.
What a fool I was to even attempt to engage a complete strainger in an argument.
All I can do to finish this debate is convince all my readers that the streets are no longer safe, in fact they are dangerous, to the extream.
With millions of people unemployed and struggling to servive they have no were to turn to, other than a drug to hide from reality and that leaves them with nothing but anger.
I should have known better and apologise for belittling any one who relys on sign langauge to get by.
But please instill in all your children to be careful. and count to 10 before you react to impulse.
That brings me to what I was thinking about when I was almost taken off the road.
When a punter bets with a Bookmaker the Bookmaker will within 1 week now how much he will take off that punter by the end of the year
How does he do it simply by watching how he bets.
If he best one or twice a day, then miss,s two days before betting again. he is a punter but not the real type bookmakers want.
If you are a UK Gambler you will have noticed all the FREE bets that Bookmakers are offering new customers, at present anything from £50 to £200.
A promotion like that you may feel is expensive tom the Bookmaker, however if they finish up with 10% of CHASERS, these being punters who just place a bet and then lose complete control of there emotions, betting like a maniac usually over the last few races, these race known as The Getting out Stakes, shows a real mug punter, one who will cause so much unhappyness for his Kids and Family that he shouldn’t bet ever.
I will now let you into a little trade secret have you noticed over the past 10 years the last races on the day that used to be non handicaps the race type were the punter has a little more chance, has been replaced with the hardest race of the day.
Any compulsion is bad, but compulsion in gambling is the most dangerous and expensive you will ever come across.
You must remember that Gambling is a Hoby but in the case of all other Hobies, they have an expence that you can afford or not.
For example spending to much playing golf, can be a problem, but I cant see how you could, lose you home, and the rooms that your children live in, by playing to much golf, unless you are Gambling, with a better golfer than you.
It saddens me to realize that many kids who have nothing before they start. Gamble on something they dont understand. in the first place.
Here endeth the Storie from the Good Book. of Life.
Cubone.
