Mad Cyril
The Fresh Prince of Belfairs⭐⭐🦐
Seeing as we have a topic about fruit machines I thought I'd share this with you....
When we were in our very early teens my brother used to be a bit of a slot jockey every time we went on holiday. My uncle informed my brother he was a mug and would never win. After an argument between the two of them my uncle decided to teach him a lesson.......
He purchased a second hand fruit machine and installed it in my brother bedroom! (My mum was not best pleased). The plan was that my uncle would cream off the profits and my brother would learn the hard way that gambling on the 'fruities' was a sure way to lose your money.
Did the plan work?
In a word, no. My brother found the keys to the machine, made a duplicate and spent all of his spare time honing his fruit machine skills at zero loss.
Rather than teach him that 'gambling does not pay' it merely served to fuel his passion for for fruit machines. It is only now, some seventeen years later that he has admitted to me that there is only one winner and that is the person who owns the fruit machine!
It hasn't stopped him playing on them though and as a regular at the Victory in Ashingon he has plenty of opportunity to indulge.
When we were in our very early teens my brother used to be a bit of a slot jockey every time we went on holiday. My uncle informed my brother he was a mug and would never win. After an argument between the two of them my uncle decided to teach him a lesson.......
He purchased a second hand fruit machine and installed it in my brother bedroom! (My mum was not best pleased). The plan was that my uncle would cream off the profits and my brother would learn the hard way that gambling on the 'fruities' was a sure way to lose your money.
Did the plan work?
In a word, no. My brother found the keys to the machine, made a duplicate and spent all of his spare time honing his fruit machine skills at zero loss.
Rather than teach him that 'gambling does not pay' it merely served to fuel his passion for for fruit machines. It is only now, some seventeen years later that he has admitted to me that there is only one winner and that is the person who owns the fruit machine!
It hasn't stopped him playing on them though and as a regular at the Victory in Ashingon he has plenty of opportunity to indulge.
