Fruit Machine Chat

I can't be the only one to have had this before. The missus tells you everyone is going out for a pub lunch to celebrate grannies 100th birthday and when you arrive, their is a tastey fruity in the corner with something hot going for it but you know granny will be 101 by the time you have done it, what do you do? Do you leave the whole family for hours hearing distant voices saying "where is Stevie" and thinking "fuck off, Stevie is on the fruity making money and if anyone comes over suggesting I am rude I will put their head through it", or do you just leave it? I do the first one

When I was younger, I would have done the first one. In fact on nights out with non-fruit friends this scenario often caused rows. Now I am older and wiser (and financially secure), i'd leave the fruit machine alone. I realised that if I wanted to have anything resembling a normal social life, i'd have to have defined occasions when I wouldn't play machines.

The family situation depends on how much you like your family I suppose. But as I age, I find that the annoying saying of "respect your elders" that my parents used to berate me with has more relevance.

blackmogu wrote:The family situation depends on how much you like your family I suppose. But as I age, I find that the annoying saying of "respect your elders" that my parents used to berate me with has more relevance.

If you ever came across my elders you would drop that saying in a heart beat!!

most my m8's family know what i do, but out of respect in a situation where i feel it would be wrong to play a machine i wont.....theres always another time

My family/mates are all easy going, but its nothing that could'nt wait till the next day.

Scott wrote:My family/mates are all easy going, but its nothing that could'nt wait till the next day.

If it was indy jones surely you would let your soup of the day go cold?