Fruit Machine Chat

Do any of you lot ever feel intimidated when your in a pub, which you only go in for the fruit's ???

I only ask because me and a close mate went for a drink this afternoon and went in a few watering holes we rarely visit.

They were not down and out back street pub's,more like trendy place's but the look's we got and bunches of lad's,3 sometimes even 4,starring at us when we were having a few quid on the machine's.

I proper felt as if there was some kind of trouble brewing up. luckily there was'nt.

Mite be paranoia but it felt like , this is their pub and were not welcome,
anyone know what I mean ??

i get this quite a bit.. and because im only 19 we get it a bit more.. because they think were out looking for trouble. most of the time we get no trouble. but when your playing ,,yeah i spose you do feel parioud

(sorry for spelling


Toby

You get the feeling sometimes, but round these parts its not an issue. Never been made to feel uneasy anywhere round here. Now, get yourself to the swamped Norwich and every other place you go in you can feel people breathing down your neck!

Mattb wrote:You get the feeling sometimes, but round these parts its not an issue.

Dunno about that Matt, it can happen anywhere, and normally does when you least expect it! Had a knife pulled on me and had my car smashed up. Also been on a cross channel ferry where i had to get a police escort off the boat because of the abuse from the security on the boat! After being beaten up by the security gaurds we were told we would be met by the rest of the security when we got off the boat which is why we had no option. Lovely when your told by the captain that it happens quite a lot.

In my experience, its the bouncers / security / owners / wannabe owners that you have to watch out for. The regulars and other punters are normaly the least of your worries!

A few villages are "Cliquey", and their local Pubwatch group bring up the topic of "Bandit Scammers". Me and a friend had the Police called to us for winning £7 on a Legal Tender. Yes, £7! Thats what came out of the hopper! The police suggested that we are not welcome here and to "Get outta town!"

As a scouser who lives and plays in Manchester, I sometimes feel as though I constantly have to be on my guard, you know, looking over my shoulder even though I'm doing nothing wrong!!

As for feeling intimidated, well, no I don't. I do get people coming up to me whilst I'm playing to have a chat and I do the same myself sometimes, but I never get given aggro or grief but you can never be too careful or wary. ( It helps that I'm a tad bit bigger than a pipecleaner )

One thing I will say is, I'm not as brave as I used to be and I don't go in as many shady pubs as I used to do for the sake of a machine, when you have a family it changes things and all it takes is a knife to the wrong part of the body and its literally Game Over.

Sometimes I dont play because people are sat near a machine... Its nice to play with a little bit of privacy sometimes (ala - Nobody within X amount of yards)

Oh Christ, I know what you mean.

I floated into a Nudgerspoons the other day. I was doing alright when I decided to play a Bucks Bunny.


Isn't amazing in Weatherspoons the amount of wierd old fuckers clogging up the place?

Anyway, this guy was just leaning near the machine. NO discernible friends near him. Well neither had I, but I was there for a bit of the bleepy bloopy streaky bloopiness. Maybe he just fancied a pint on his own, but he was a bit wierd. He kept staring at me, it wasn't intimidating, but it was wierd. You know. I'm on the machine, move your line of vision. Stop staring into my ear you wierd old person. Perhaps my ear is very fascinating. I might PM a picture of my ear to 'marjorie'. I'd turn around and he'd suddenyl stop staring. Then when I was playing he'd be staring. It got so annoying I baled on 4 red kos for £16, when I wanted to play it through.

After noticiing what turned out to be psycho losing badly on a machine, 30 minutes later, decided to force it, ended up around 50 up with death threats being shouted from over the bar.

Ended up buying him a drink that time (since i was alone and pretty drunk) as he had heavy back up and i wanted to leave alive, not something i'd do too often but find it a useful escape tactic at times.

Usually i go on rounds with a friend and we compete to see who can get the most cash (plus you get less threats if there's more than one of you after big wins), while playing darts/pool e.t.c on route. If i'm going on a solo run, i pick my times/days carefully when i know the psychos have generally left the building.

Not a bad ploy, but beware buying a drink can also be taken the wrong way - ie rubbing their nose in it because you won and they didn't.

Never happened to me yet, mind you when i play its usually with my cousin. I am 6'5" and he is 6'2" and both well-built skinheads.

Never had any probs so far

Play the machines early, before people have had the time to get properly drunk.

roberto la vigna wrote:Play the machines early, before people have had the time to get properly drunk.

I always find a few grams of thermite is great at diverting attention of nutters. When moving away after doing the machine, this will produce a big pall of smoke and sparks in the payout tray as it melts interminably through the plastic payout tray, the metal beneath and sets fire to the coin box at the bottom. Your feigned shock as you assure the pub staff you won't sue them for distress and trauma as you walk slowly out, ensures no physical interventions.

Mattb wrote:Not a bad ploy, but beware buying a drink can also be taken the wrong way - ie rubbing their nose in it because you won and they didn't.

He "helped" me win on a no lose board, I made out i would have collected a lower win and offered a drink out ot gratitude.

If a nutter is going to attack you for winning, they'll generally do it no matter what you do, but worth offering a drink at times depending on the situation, otherwise i'd try to escape or call for backup or something.