Vegas: What the heck am I going to do with all these quarters?
Posted by: orboy on: June 17, 2008
This past weekend Girl and I went to Las Vegas. It was a blast (Girl might talk about this more herself). But one thing bothered me. Well, there were two things, but leaving the raging heat out of this, one thing. What thing you ask? Vegas’s rejection of quarters.
For our trip, I brought a lot of quarters. I like wandering throughout the casinos dropping a few coins in a machine here, or a few coins in a machine there, maybe winning, maybe losing, who knows. In Vegas, however, I’m out of luck! No machine in Las Vegas has a coin slot! You either give it paper money or one of those cash receipt things which they give you if you win or cash out.
So there I was, stuck in Vegas with gambling money with which I couldn’t gamble (at least not with as much ease as I intended). The result? I did far less gambling than I would have. But in the end, I think that’s a good thing because I could be out a lot more money that I was.
2 Responses to "Vegas: What the heck am I going to do with all these quarters?"
June 18, 2008 at 9:55 am
Of course I could have done that, but:
1) it completely negated the effort it took me to get the quarters in the first place
2) the extra effort to actually convert the money to something usable was not something I was excited about doing (hence didn’t)
3) not having the quarters meant not being able to use the quarters which is contrary to my preferred gambling style
Now I don’t mind not getting quarters back in return. Give me a little slip of paper that told me I won $20 – that’s perfectly fine with me. I just like putting quarters in a slot and pulling the handle. Call me old fashioned but that’s what gambling is about (for me).
June 17, 2008 at 11:03 pm
If you took the quarters to the casino cage, they probably still have a machine back there somewhere that could count them and turn them into paper cash.
Having said that, I do miss the “coin in, coin out” machines. noting like dropping in a quarter here, a quarter there and seeing what happens in Las Vegas.
Then… if you hit… you get to sit and watch all the quarters from your jackpot come out with the “ping-ping-ping-ping-ping!”
Great post.
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