[mafioso]

Brah, Brah , you around? Must be reloading huh Moron??? Remember the Moron that warned you this morning??? Books love a guy like you, Sure you won a few grand(So you say) the last 3 weeks................ The books love when that happens to a guy early in life, You will be down to not only your last pennies, but your families and friends last pennies when you finally quit and hang it up after losing probably 25,000 in 1 baseball season! Remember an old 41 year old Moron told you this, especially when you are hiding from the local who keeps coming by your place looking for his cash boy!

At one time in my life, I worked for a crazy Jew bastard in San Diego as his foreman/manager at his scrap metal recycling center, Loved the jew ****, I mean he was and still is one of my very best friends to this day.

He built his scrap metal empire thru sports and pony's, no shit, He nailed not one but two pick six bets in a 4 month span.
He called me, and asked if I could be his main guy, I had just sold all four of my pizza joints so I said Hell, why not, Ill learn the business and if I like it, maybe Ill do the same thing somewhere else.

Reality hit hard, He would never answer the phone, He would always have me take message's, Every call was like, No Im sorry, Mr. ********** isnt here, after a while I found out his gamblling was out of control, He had lost 5 dimes a day 39 out of 50 daysClients were being delayed thier pay, He would borrow money from me to open sometimes because he would blow all the money on horses, slots and sports the night before.

I loaned him maybe around 30K in a year total, ofcourse it was in 3 or 4K increments and he always payed me back, but One day he lost a-lot with a local named Dino, I told him Dino doesnt play, Dont bet with him unless you have the money to pay up if you lose, Yeah yeah was his answer.

So I left the scrap yard around 4:30 pm on a tuesday, he was in around 18K to Dino and was placing his bets at Caliente sportsbook in Mexico, He stayed at the scrap yard watching the game on the internet.

I came in to open the next morning and his car was still there, I went to open the office door and it was already open, He was on the floor gagged and tied up and all the money to start the day was gone from the safe.

I had to front him money to open that day.
and I had to play middleman and work out a payment plan for him with Dino.

My friend is alive today still, He is doing okay as he went back to Industrial pickup on scrap metal only, and he nolonger uses locals.

This was a man in his late 40s who started gambling in his early 20s
He makes about 4K a month - living expense's

but he has no wife or girlfreind
His real best friend is a bottle JW black label
He has no home, he still rents
He has no credit
This is the lifepath he chose.
I see brahma bull following in my freinds footsteps and the post I quoted is the hard truth about what gambling can do if it controls you.