4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Today a story about a dangerous situation ... with a ridiculous undercurrent. Hear Mara’s madcap romp about a man who spun a tale and then scammed her out of something most unexpected.
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0:45.9 | I used to be with somebody who owned a bar and restaurant, and we had a vendor that came |
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0:55.9 | We had a poker machine, two or three tabletop machines or whatnot. |
1:02.1 | And my boyfriend at the time had built up this collection of keys over the years for |
1:08.9 | each and every one of those poker machines where you could open them up, take the money |
1:14.5 | out and reset them. |
1:16.4 | So we could like sit and play these machines over and over again, and it would never be |
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1:25.2 | and reset them. |
1:26.2 | So I never had to pay for any of those video games. |
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