Posted by
RepublicanEvangelist on Saturday, January 17, 2009 10:36:48 AM
No, not a real one before you think I am a terrible parent. I may very well be a terrible parent but I hate casinos. I took the kids to a place called Kids Castle probably because the Golden Nugget was too obvious. It is basically looks like a Chuck E Cheese without the giant singing rodent. They don't use tokens for the games there. They use cards that you load up and swipe on the machines. The problem is that about 90 percent of the "games" at this place weren't games at all. They were devices you used to try to win tickets. For example, there is a version of Deal or No Deal where you pick a case and like on the show the boss up in a office offers you tickets for the case. My daughter hit deal right away and won 22 tickets. The problem is that for 22 tickets you can buy basically nothing. For 50 you can buy a 50 cent package of Playdough. My son saw a McQueen eating set and began obsessing on it. It was 1200. I was trying to calculate the conversion rate like I was in a foreign country. I think it was each ticket was worth about a penny. An X Box was price at 47500. We weren't going to get there last night and my efforts to get the kids to understand the concept of saving weren't going well. My daughter wanted a more reasonably priced High School Musical notepad which was worth about a dollar and priced at 350. This was doable if my son were to get nothing and volunteer to sacrifice his tickets to his sister to make her dreams come true. Fat chance. After nearly 90 minutes grubbing for tickets or crying at the redemption counter we left. The kids wanted to come back the next day. Fat chance. The good news is we have nearly 400 tickets. A couple of nights more and we can buy a $5 McQueen set that we probably already own.