Vault: He thinks his parents are being taken advantage of
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🗓️ 30 June 2026
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| 1:28.2 | are gamblers yeah they go and like they normally go to the Indian casino that's near the house |
| 1:32.8 | and they go and it's it's I think I've told you this like they'll go seriously with 60 bucks |
| 1:37.9 | and then call to report a $20 swing either way really like is your mom like the the nickel |
| 1:43.5 | slots woman that's there all day, same slot machine |
| 1:46.3 | over and over and over again? |
| 1:47.7 | It's weird because they don't, there's no, like, significant passion about it. |
| 1:53.2 | Like, there's no 12-hour marathons or anything. |
| 1:55.2 | It seriously is a way to kill three hours or four hours. |
| 1:58.3 | So she'll play one penny slot, nickel slot, quarter slot for 15 minutes. Then they'll wander over to the buffet and they'll sit down and have a drink. Then they'll wander back over. My dad will play blackjack. Then they'll walk. So it's just that that's what they do. And they've been married how long now? 300 years. Yeah, that's what you do. And they just figure out different ways to kill time together. They both like going and they go together. I think it's cool. So they decide, they have started going to Las Vegas once or twice a year to mix it up, you know, because then it's not just the unique casino. It's a whole, you know, it's like a playground. There's a mile of different places for them to walk |
| 2:35.2 | to. And last trip, their flight home got screwed up and it was really, it was, it was jacked up |
| 2:42.4 | because I was on the phone with my dad, and they're not big travelers, you know, like they, |
| 2:47.1 | they're good getting to the airport, getting on the plane and coming back, but when there's like a customer service issue, like they don't exercise their passenger rights. You know, like if the guy says, I'm sorry, we can't get you on the next flight, you can't fly out until three days from now at 2.30 in the afternoon. And here's a $5 coupon for Burger King. They're like, oh, thank you for the coupon. |
| 3:09.3 | And then they, because they think that's okay. |
| 3:25.2 | They just get walked on. Yeah. So that kind of happened last time. And I was like, you know, that that screwed up. And I ended up calling. And it was a big ordeal. And I wrote a letter to the airline. It wasn't Delta. and the airline ended up writing my parents back and saying, |
| 3:26.4 | we're sorry for the inconvenience, |
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